Chart Your Course

AUGUST 14, 2012

Throughout the year employees nominate each other for five award categories: leadership, quality improvement, innovation, community involvement, etc. When your customer service team loses their drive, it’s detrimental to productivity, profits and personnel. Schreiber Foods, Inc. holds an annual President’s Employee Recognition Dinner.

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Webinar Library Motivation Video 133

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 22, 2011

We'd spent most of the launch money on sampling and couponing. Clorox effectively trashed P&G's new product initiative. I don't want to say "dirty tricks," (whoops, I just said it) but Clorox certainly took an innovative approach to squelching P&G's innovative threat.

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Innovation Franchising Ethics Disruptive Innovation 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

But while they are waiting for the next big breakthrough, companies have to fill their product line with clinically similar drugs to market as "better" than their competitors' similar drugs. Equating "innovative" with new molecules misses the point: to develop clinically superior new medicines. At Harvard's Edmond J.

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Business Model Company Pharmaceuticals Price 15

Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Competition without relationships turns products and services turn into commodities. One half of building business is supplying quality products or services; the other half is skill in building relationships. Then come down—whether it is getting published or getting a new product into stores. Proceed with extreme caution.

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Press Release Discount Sharpe Advertising 100

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The breadth of article topics was large and the sample of rhetorical styles diverse. trade deficit with Japan grew through the 1980s, for example, influential thinkers increasingly focused on how managerial innovations used in Japanese firms might be imported and adapted in the U.S. How Ethical Are You? As the U.S. More >>.

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Prahalad Hamel Core Competence Leadership 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Say you introduce an innovative new customer-relationship-management (CRM) tool for your sales force, and revenue increases by 15%. When such simple randomization is not feasible due to logistics, ethics, cost, or sample size, more sophisticated analytical techniques can be employed. Take the issue of productivity.

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Flextime Call Center Human Resources CRM 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

One of your executives comes to you with a proposal: she wants to lower the quality of service at the restaurants, reduce product safety standards, use deceptive marketing practices, lower employee pay, and adopt worse environmental practices. In the sample of firms we used, KLD scores were positively correlated with firms’ incomes.

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Company Short-term Long-term Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2013

If we limit the sample to mothers with at least a college degree, the number rises only slightly, to 13.9 For upper-middle class men, notes sociologist Michèle Lamont, ambition and a strong work ethic are "doubly sacred. Okay, okay, it might boost productivity," was the argument, "but it inhibits innovation."

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Morale Class Cooper Ethics 10