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- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
make its core snack and soft drink products healthier), while at the same time maintaining short-term profitability. The evolution of the product portfolio was part of a larger effort to implement a new strategic vision, encapsulated in...
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Carmen Nobel
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
today. We have a short-term goal to get to 100,000 apprentices, which starts to become a really quite meaningful scale, so you’re influencing the direction of the workforce. And the problems we’re talking about around equitable access to...
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that, for a given project, you might just quickly want to acquire, you want to burst that out to external types of resources. This can be filling certain short-term voids that you might have through maternity types of situations or other...
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- 01 Dec 2001
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September 11: A Community Reflects
prevail," and urged U.S. policymakers to think beyond short-term solutions — such as cutting interest rates and letting companies buy back their own stocks — to more lasting measures — such as creating new forms of employment and...
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
near absence of strong processes for internal operations such as HR, accounting, credit, invoicing, and collections. During this financial crunch, Flipkart (India’s e-commerce unicorn) offered BlackBuck $20 million in convertible debt that could potentially tide over...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015
Vegas, Nevada. The company will use the forecast to staff the front desk in the hotel. The staff is unionized and the company has little flexibility to change staffing levels on a short-term basis. The case is set in the context of...
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- 30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
would be a ways off. “This is a really big ship to turn,” he says. “But when I started hearing real, actual time lines—that was music to my ears.” It wasn’t just a vision but a plan. And just as importantly, that plan wasn’t a short-term...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Statistics, it characterizes them, essentially, by their employment status. Are they long-term unemployed? Are they short-term unemployed? Are they in part-time work and want to have more hours? And so I was curious us about, let’s learn...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
economy driven by short-term considerations rooted in financial accounting. We’ll talk about how cost cutting in recruiting and training has raised costs by driving up voluntary turnover and leading employers to rely increasingly on the...
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- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
capabilities that enable consistent execution can also hinder learning and innovation, leaving organizations rigid and inflexible. By optimizing their processes for efficiency in the short term, organizations become brittle. In the "Productivity Dilemma",...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2012
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From Where We Stand
caused by the tendency to focus on quarterly earnings growth and the necessity to appeal to shareholders who are not long-term investors. These two factors have, in many cases, spurred short-term decision making and therefore long-term...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
really need to get right for not only just short-term growth, but I would even say long-term viability. You've got to have a workforce that fundamentally and an organizational culture that fundamentally supports continuous learning. We do...
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