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- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
sales began to slide. While Steinhafel believed that Target's long-term strategy and positioning were right, he pondered a set of strategic and operational challenges. Did Target have the right mix of offensive and defensive tactics to...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007
say, 'I want to help. I may not be perfect, but I buy into your vision.'" Other recommendations are more intuitive, such as learning the new CEO's working style, understanding his or her agenda, and helping him or her look good in the new position by achieving...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6
and job-training programs-have tended to operate in silos. But they are far more effective when they're networked. By collaborating to bridge the gaps between them, business, academic, and policy leaders can help generate more ideas,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
Airlines, casinos, and hotels can offer significant rewards to their loyal customers because they often operate with substantial overcapacity. Rewards based on this overcapacity, such as air miles or stays in hotels and resorts, are...
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- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
for this to happen. Q: There's an interesting phenomenon going on, and that's basically outsourcing fairly complex surgeries to India for much cheaper prices. Does this actually pose a threat to the institutionalized health care system at...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
these components to the what I'll call the “cultural piece” of empathetic leadership, the very tactical operational about how you put flexibility in your workforce. But don't underestimate the power of some of these longer-term programs...
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- 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4
crisis of the day and focus on the United States' role in the world. Read the paper: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/02/america_needs_a_chief_strategy_officer Working PapersModularity and Organizations Authors:Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract Modularity...
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Carmen Nobel
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
for talent, the access to opportunities. And so Fiverr is an initial idea focused on digital services, because we wanted the things that could be done remotely and be delivered online to reduce all the complexities that come with physical...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
approach will not work if it’s left to individual choice to come in when people feel like it; it must be structured, so that people are together in predictable ways for the parts of the work that present the most interdependence. So conceptual simplicity gives rise to...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
anecdotes illuminate technical concepts. A natural teacher, King emphasizes that complex software is unnecessary for success in this field. Readers will find real-life examples that help put statistical concepts into an understandable...
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original version of Dropbox. Do you think that with the tabs and bringing all of that into one place, is that as complex of a technical challenge as the original? Or are there other challenges you face toward realizing that...
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- 06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
investigates dialog and objects in recurrent social practices. Drawing from both streams, this paper seeks to shed light on the complexity of cross-boundary teaming, while highlighting factors that may enhance its effectiveness. We...
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high school, and it made me a little mad. So when I lost that congressional race, I decided I’m not going back to the private sector, but I decided also, “Wow, I saw a lot of complex problems on the campaign trail. What’s one of them that...
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diehard, achievement-oriented executive, has got feel pretty great. Also, first in software, although to give some of your competitors their due, Meta was sixth and Intuit, I think ninth, and your former employer, 23rd. How do you feel that reflects what your View Details
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patterns—then, now, suddenly, you have a network that is operating at the same speed that your mind is processing reality.Fuller: Mo, how do you think this is going to play out in terms of the emergence of specific applications of the...
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expert adjacent. We should be just a few prompts away from deep insights into complex issues like economic mobility. Any proficient user—be it a worker, employer, academic, or reporter—should be able to answer fundamental questions like,...
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