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Ethics Is Serious Business

Great Leadership By Dan

One of the managers involved in the affair was an idealistic young man named Dennis Gioia, who went into the auto industry to make a contribution to society. Gioia supported Ford’s decision at the time, based on a plausible cost-benefit analysis.

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7 Ways to Save Money and Maximize Your Fleet’s Productivity

Strategy Driven

Additionally, the cost-effectiveness of outsourcing largely depends on the quality of the service provider. It is crucial to conduct a thorough cost-benefit analysis before deciding whether to manage your fleet in-house or outsource it.

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Don't Let a Spreadsheet Decide Where You Locate Your Business

Harvard Business Review

Michael Porter's article in the March issue of HBR on choosing the United States makes the point that in choosing where to locate even high value-adding business activities, many companies don't do a very thorough costs/benefits analysis. I think the U.S. is also suffering from a dynamic I call "Herd to Hell" competition (H2H).

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Learning from Microfinance's Woes

Harvard Business Review

The third benefit is that microfinance represents a new industry that generates jobs and services. billion, and that has helped create a new industry. To make a judgment, a comparative cost-benefit analysis would be necessary. Roodman does say that the evidence is generally positive here. That's nice.

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A Better Metric for the Value of a Worker Training Program

Harvard Business Review

Conducting an accurate cost-benefit analysis requires a holistic approach, one that incorporates costs and job placement and also accounts for how participants are doing after they leave the program. We need to adopt something similar to a “total cost of ownership” (TCO) analysis.

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Workers, Put Those Headphones On

Harvard Business Review

And yet, before working on Jim's piece, the cost-benefit analysis I'd done in my head (unscientific, not math-based, of course) suggested that whatever effort it took to gather and analyze the data probably wouldn't reveal anything new. RescueTime surveils your computer activity.

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

Trust is a common factor in the cost-benefits analysis, compliance with authority, or loyalty to leaders hypotheses. Many leaders, particularly in financial services industry, seemed perfectly happy to disrupt the global economy and lay off thousands of employees while collecting multimillion-dollar compensation packages.