HR Digest

DECEMBER 13, 2023

When it comes to errors at work, flowery language and promises of making up for it can be considered too casual, so it is important to learn how to say sorry in a professional email to ensure that you are able to correctly atone for the error. Bring up the incident clearly so they can see that you understand what went wrong.

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How To Project Examples Learning-by-Doing 52

Rajesh Setty

AUGUST 16, 2008

The story is about how NY Times is using CAPTCHA technology to fix errors that crop up in their effort to digitize old issues. You are breaking down the problem (OCR errors) into small pieces and parceling them out to individual websites. I put together a schematic to explain what they are doing.

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Licensing Parcell Newsletter Business Model 29

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 8, 2015

The chart may appear to show merely that Cisco’s patent filings lagged its R&D spending by three years, but in fact the decline in spending and the rise in patents were part and parcel of a deliberate strategic shift by the company in 2001. Research & development Financial management' So what was going on?

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Innovation Parcell Wireless Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

Companies such as Coastal Risk Consulting are developing flood risk statistical models at the parcel level. ” While pessimists posit that a city losing its land area will lose its population base, they forget that a city can build up on “higher ground.” What will this adaptation look like?

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Real Estate Parcell Incentives Human Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Acquisitions are part and parcel of a transformation. Of course, it takes time to digest such acquisitions and restore the company’s financial firepower, which often results in a transformation pattern in which a period of consolidation follows a period of acceleration. Go for the occasional mega-acquisition.

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Company Chemicals Short-term How To 10

Skip Prichard

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Failure comes part and parcel with invention” (Bezos 2013 letter). The S-Team (senior leadership team) developed Amazon’s flywheel. Given Amazon success, wouldn’t you want to understand and develop the flywheel that runs your business? I constantly remind our employees to be afraid, to wake up every morning terrified.

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Letter Collins Long-term Parcell 85

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Doing that required developing a new business model in which MedStar would get paid to keep patients well. That could involve targeting new geographies, developing new products, taking advantage of new technologies, or devising new business models. and Maryland to launch a more general health insurance plan. billion in 2010 to $4.9

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Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2015

Average earnings among the top 10 were up 6% this year, while the average earnings of the bottom 10 dropped 9%. They’re also among the most profitable (the top five companies make up for 15% of the index’s total market capitalization), and the fastest growing (their market capitalization has grown this year by 23.3%

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Tourism Telecommunications Automotive Company 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

A Network Audit Think of up to ten people with whom you have discussed important work matters over the past few months (you are not required to come up with ten). When it comes to stepping up to leadership, your network is a tool for identifying new strategic opportunities and attracting the best people to them.

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