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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
podcast from Harvard Business School. I’m your host, Bill Kerr. My guest today is Tia Silas, CHRO of the e-commerce company Shopify. We’ll talk about what it takes to run a predominantly remote organization and how to secure and develop the highly sought-after skills...
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- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
from a small Nigerian export company into a $5 billion global leader in agricultural commodities with a core competence in Africa. Olam's growth had come by pursuing product and geographic adjacencies, and...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
organizational structures such as codes are associated with improvements in supplier labor practices, especially in organizations in which they compete with productivity-driving incentive structures. We investigate under what internal...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 17
in engineering and infrastructure construction, its challenges in planning and innovation, and the special things that a firm must do to compete successfully in the Chinese market. We conclude with China's approach to the global economy...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
he cofounded Giant Otter, a startup that developed anti-bullying software designed to make both a social impact and a profit. The company’s foreign-born coders, however, lacked the cultural competency to develop the conversational...
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- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
than 350 interviews in 20 countries to identify the leadership practices and operating methods of major companies seeking profitable growth through innovation that benefits society. For example, when the tsunami and earthquake struck India in 2006, IBM did not just...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
business plans, and key personnel ignited a bi-coastal battle between two fierce rivals that was played out in courts competing for jurisdiction and states with diametrically opposed laws and public policies concerning non-competition...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14
formats, which competed more directly with independents and accelerated their decline. Overall, these findings suggest that restricting the entry of large stores does not necessarily lead to a world with fewer stores, but one with...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
international competition. That was a sign that the US was not doing well in businesses that have to compete internationally. The data also showed what many had known—that wages started stagnating well over a decade ago. The participation...
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Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
regularly explore together: (1) Who is your primary customer? Have you organized your company to deliver maximum value to that customer? (2) How do your core values prioritize shareholders, employees, and customers? Is everyone in your...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
had the kind of in-depth look it deserves, yet it is at the core of a number of the problems we've seen. The board of directors and its compensation committee determine the compensation of the CEO in our system. Yet too many companies in...
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by Kim B. Clark
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
at directly competing firms who have entirely different prospects for moving up. And so what we wanted to do was to be able to measure that and understand what are the practices that are moving people ahead, not by studying the practices...
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
understand how to compete in these spaces is like, they're just not designed or educated in how to do those things. So the beauty of what you guys were doing at the Divinity School was like the notion that you and Angie are the first two...
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- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
“second HQ” in India to exemplify our core proposition. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54978 The Impact of Penalties for Wrong Answers on the Gender Gap in Test Scores By: Coffman, Katherine B.,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
today, I don't know how the hell they would get this idea started. The other point is that the health care system policy thinking is dominated by the idea of economies of scale. But there are diseconomies of scale. You get too big and you lose touch with the View Details
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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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Print View - Course Catalog
their post-MBA role as advisors and counselors. Mastering Consulting and Advisory Skills (MCAS) seeks to develop critical consulting skills among two core groups within the EC: on the one hand are aspiring-consultants who need to build...
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- 12 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting
the company's reporting as useful as possible to all stakeholders.” It is certainly true that a company can be clearly committed to sustainability without producing One Report. Ricoh is a good example of this. Sustainability is at the View Details
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by Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Forum for Growth & Innovation
resources for building vehicles that give them different basis of competition. And so that is the theory would say much more direct disruptive and potentially allows them to compete in asymmetric ways to large incumbent organizations. The...
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details