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- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
told General Medina. He was a CFA with experience in international business, and now he had spent four years in one of the most taxing leadership positions imaginable. But he needed General Medina to support his petition to end active...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
We’re also doing research right now on how employers define a good job and how they’re workers to find that same good job. We’re finding that there are pretty big differences in the definition of what constitutes “good.” Very interested...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care
The occasion? The company, a leading supplier of cloud-based services for electronic health records (EHR), practice management, and care coordination, was expanding. In a big way. Founded in 1997, athenahealth now serves about 44,000...
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- 09 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 9
presents a process for asking the big questions that will enable you to diagnose problems, change course if necessary, and advance your career. He lays out areas of inquiry, including questions such as (1) Do I clearly articulate my...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2
unethical. In four experiments, participants wore purportedly fake or authentically branded sunglasses. Those wearing fake sunglasses cheated more across multiple tasks than did participants wearing authentic sunglasses, both when they...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609018 eHarmony Harvard Business School Case 709-424 eHarmony's CEO needs to decide how to react to imitations of its business model, encroachment by competing models, and ascendance of...
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
the United States because of an absence of widespread paid maternity leave. Higher profit, big companies, of course, provide maternity leave, increasingly provide paternity leave—often paid paternity leave—but it’s still less than a third...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
workers said were particularly important to them and to their success, looking at the differences between workers who had been advanced and how they explained why that happened, versus those that hadn’t been, zeroing in on four or five...
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- 25 Aug 2010
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Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
her name on the card, and if you got five in a row, you had “bingo.” Variations ensued (“X”, four corners, whole card, etc.). At first, the “free” spot was free. As it evolved (degenerated?), I believe someone used the computer lab’s...
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- 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
forthcoming Financial Analysts Journal Optimal Tilts: Combining Persistent Characteristic Portfolios By: Baker, Malcolm, Ryan Taliaferro, and Terry Burnham Abstract—We examine the optimal weighting of four tilts in U.S. equity markets...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
particular, because of my passion around the dignity of work. I think that comes from my upbringing, where I saw in very stark terms the life-changing value of work. My father left my mother and four small children—I was the youngest of...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
support as companies have gone to distance work. And this acceleration just meant the supply-demand imbalance, in terms of people with digital skills. Big companies had not budgeted for this sudden surge in their need to support remote...
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- 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21
executives, middle managers, and sales people from companies across a variety of industries. The survey focused on questions about how well their companies’ strategies informed six critical elements of their sales approaches. The results indicate a View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 15 Nov 2011
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First Look: November 15
organizational decision-making forums. Based on the ability to combine and balance these two processes, we distinguish analytically among four positions of influence that experts can occupy-box-tickers, disconnected technicians, ad hoc...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
McArthur My son Joe, then four years old, approached the burlier of our two dinner guests. “Bet you don’t pillow fight.” This was odd. Joe was shy and didn’t usually approach strangers. “Bet I do,” John McArthur replied. He arched an...
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- 13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016
emerged in areas ranging from labor markets to credit applications to housing—sometimes made worse by a lack of regulation, the absence of in-person interactions, and the use of automation and big data. How can companies reverse the tide?...
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Carmen Nobel
- 22 Aug 2019
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Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
cascading wave of, I'll say, wealth. Which is the dream, is to elevate us beyond where we are. Hanna: Can you give me an example of someone who came to Andela and trained with you, and how it changed their life? Sulyman: I'll think of someone that spent View Details
- 03 Sep 2018
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Moving Pictures
out on the big screen, he adds, those moments are often highly visual, with no lines of dialogue. Even then, however, Singer is putting words on the page to guide the filmmaking. “A script is a sales tool,” he says. “Movies are...
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- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
ensuring high-quality care across the system. The arrival of COVID-19, he says, presented “the challenge of a lifetime.” In addition to gaining a deep appreciation of frontline health care providers, says Hatanaka, Ontario Health has worked to build patient-centered...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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E Ink’s Wild Ride
fundamental behavior — how they read. Eager to earn its first revenues, E Ink searched to find a customer that could use an early form of the technology. In 1999, JCPenney placed an order for four displays for use in its shoe departments....
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