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Workplace Depression: This is How to Tell Your Employees Are Depressed

Strategy Driven

However, the Mental Health Foundation has provided guidelines for employees, coworkers, and friends to look out for: Physical signs of self-harm (such as seeing scarring on the wrists). Overwhelming redundancy in workplace operations may not be stimulating enough for some employees. Decreased appetite. Moving Forward.

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Should You Launch in Emerging Markets First?

Harvard Business Review

Miniature wells patterned onto the paper contain chemicals that react with samples of blood, urine, saliva, or sweat, which causes the paper to display a reading with a change of color. Diagnostics developed for emerging markets must be rugged, resistant to wear and tear, simple to operate, and temperature-resistant.

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Joint Ventures Reduce the Risk of Major Capital Investments

Harvard Business Review

The latest nuclear reactor designs, promising higher safety, longer operating life, and lower operating costs, cost up to $25 billion after factoring in the huge budget overruns. The common idea behind these models is that the company does not have to be the (full) owner of the asset to be its (sole) operator.

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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

He’d found a receptive chemical-company owner who was providing lab space and even some financial support. operations. On her flight back to New York, Helena ran through Unamano’s guidelines for regions in which it would expand. Helena told him she was sorry, but it was out of the question. It didn’t have U.S.

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Why Sourcing Local Food Is So Hard for Restaurants

Harvard Business Review

However, you’ve made the point that even though there are fewer intermediaries between supplier and restaurant, its operations can actually end up being more complex and fragmented, and therefore harder to control for safety. Operations in a Connected World. How can this be? Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Uniting the Religions of Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

They also believe in building a BPM "Book of Knowledge" (a codification of process improvement "best practices") and a BPM "Center of Excellence" (a central organization where process experts reside and develop guidelines and procedures for documenting and analyzing business processes).

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Case Study: Can One Business Unit Have 2 Revenue Models?

Harvard Business Review

But rather than illustrating a simple revenue model, the diagrams showed that over time he had adjusted his pricing policies to address customer demands, internal accounting guidelines, and competitive threats. “Basically, you just do what’s needed to make money, right?” ” Peter asked pointedly.