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- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
Greenwashing By: Marquis, Christopher, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Under increased pressure to report environmental impacts, some firms selectively disclose relatively benign impacts, creating an impression of transparency while...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
Umeda visits. Sato-san’s right lung has failed; morphine helps ease the pain, but it’s hard not to worry as the weekend nears. The clinic is always a phone call away, Dr. Umeda reassures them. Matsubara is one of eight clinics operated by...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
Conversely, I’ve heard investors say they wish the leaders of their portfolio companies would be more transparent about challenges they are facing and ask for help. As one investor said to me, “They already sold me on the business and...
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by Julia Austin
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
real-time. With these forecasts, an airport’s operating team can make data-driven decisions, identify late connecting passengers and assist them to make their connections. The airport can also update its resourcing plans based on the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
our teammates was, nobody had helped enterprises with that and nobody was really operating at the very high levels of, kind of business intelligence that a lot of the work that was happening in the gig economy, and the freelance economy...
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- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
Teixeira Abstract—Online retail accounts for a rapidly growing proportion of revenues in many industries. While selling online broadens firms’ access to consumers, operating margins are often lower in online stores than in physical...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
energy security. Thus the top leadership of Russia has charted the course of the company's future away from the seemingly imminent dismemberment, privatization, and, by implication, de-monopolization toward a challenging combination of strengthened state control,...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
“function-oriented”—productivity. Many of the processes that are so common and so core to the way a firm operates today can be automated. So closing the books at quarter’s end totally can be automated. Reviewing sales pipeline, that can...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
up the organization until I’m completely incompetent. I just, like, this is not my thing.” And we looked at this and we said, “Oh my gosh, this is actually”—and by the way, every organization operates this way. It’s kind of insane. But...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
operators or planners. That's fine, but there is more demand for people who can get results and make money for an organization. Maintain professional involvement if you decide to reduce your work commitments due to family. Keeping up a...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
we prepare them to be able to explore different options and find one that’s a good fit? The flip side of that, of course, is how do employers find employees who are a good fit for them? And part of that is about being transparent around...
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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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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
special for their company. They don’t just copy what somebody else did. Your hybrid work strategy isn’t the same as somebody else’s hybrid work strategy. Your leadership development strategy isn’t the same as somebody else’s. And the third is, really, View Details