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Research: Do People Really Get Promoted to Their Level of Incompetence?

Harvard Business Review

When organizations reward success in one role with a promotion to another, the usual grumbles ensue; the best engineer doesn’t make the best engineering manager, and the best professor doesn’t make the best dean. Both solutions can be implemented as part of the performance evaluation process.

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Making Business School Research More Relevant

Harvard Business Review

The work of translational medical scientists means the knowledge production engines of medical schools advance basic science, applied science, and the practice of medicine. To be sure, corporate funding of medical research for some time has been accused of biasing findings in favor of for-profit interests.

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Connect Inventors with the Right Problems

Harvard Business Review

Some firms hired expert industry consultants to help them find ideas outside their firms, but these individuals, too, had (and still have) limited knowledge, and in some cases conflicts of interest. The best ones often are working with a firm’s competitors. How else would they really know what’s going on?).

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How Risk Reduction Is (and Isn't) Rocket Science

Harvard Business Review

This approach ensured that project resources were properly allocated where they were really needed and minimized conflicts of interest and management overhead. Leveraging Executive Sponsors. It stands to reason that good project management requires active executive sponsorship.

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How Risk Reduction Is (and Isn't) Rocket Science

Harvard Business Review

This approach ensured that project resources were properly allocated where they were really needed and minimized conflicts of interest and management overhead. Leveraging Executive Sponsors. It stands to reason that good project management requires active executive sponsorship.

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What You Can Do to Improve Ethics at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

But what about the ordinary engineers, managers, and employees who designed cars to cheat automotive pollution controls or set up bank accounts without customers’ permission? Some of these activities included inherent conflicts of interest; others simply caused leaders to have to act counter to their values (loyalty, for example).

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Integrating Maintenance of Board Certification and Health Systems’ Quality-Improvement Programs

Harvard Business Review

It includes five health system engineers, five administrative staff, and 15 physicians representing multiple specialities as well as Mayo Clinic sites in Minnesota, Arizona, Florida, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Georgia. Distinguish QIPs from clinical research. The initiative consists of three elements: 1. Review and approve QIPs.