Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2017

Millions of global travelers are anxiously awaiting the answer to this question. Aside from another terrorist group disrupting world-wide travel operations at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars , the other big winners from an increased ban could be foreign intelligence services. To ban or not to ban laptops?

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

In the 90s, ZS evolved by developing a new sales force effectiveness and productivity framework, data warehouses for clients, as well as a range of analytical services, data-handling capabilities, and rigorous analytics to the marketing research function. Medical Products and Services. Industrial Products & Services.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 7, 2018

Why is it that when a group of managers gets together for a strategic planning session they often emerge with a document that’s devoid of “strategy”, and often not even a plan ? I have one such document in front of me as I write this. Alicia Llop/Getty Images. The reason? Stakeholders can be great strategists.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2018

Right before the start of our study in 2011, new closed-circuit television cameras were installed at all airport checkpoints—covering almost all the various positions the officers rotated through, from checking travelers’ documents to operating body-scan machines.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Another pervasive reason is that senior executives are trained as operators, not innovators. And there’s a fundamental conflict between innovation and optimizing an existing operation. To close the gap, we need to treat innovation differently than we do normal operations. Here are four things leaders can do.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

For example, it might be critical that a company wins a new order (which will be awarded on a given date) from a major customer, or gets a factory fully operational by a certain day. ” The organization, if it is operating rationally, should be willing to accept however much improvement it can get from that fixed investment.

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

For instance, we examined predatory pricing in the airline industry and illegal product tying by Apple, Microsoft, and AT&T. What I found particularly fascinating was the number of variables that needed to be taken into account while making strategic decisions on governance, production or any other function.

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Consulting Case Interview Interviews Engineering 204

Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2016

Compared to professions like engineering or business disciplines like Finance or Operations, the concept of a dedicated salesperson is relatively recent. ” As Walter Friedman documents in Birth of a Salesman , sales wasn’t seen as a function that required specialized training or education until well into the 20 th century.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

And this is not just the superconsumers outside your organization who are passionate about your products and services. And they’re sure to have great ideas about how to improve your products and business. “My guess is that one hundred percent of United’s employees are superconsumers of travel,” he said.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

Titled “Buy American and Hire American,” it directs federal agencies to review whether existing policies adequately prioritize American products and protect American workers. A wealth of academic literature has documented how high-skilled immigrants, particularly in STEM , and including those who would enter the U.S.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

” I document this extensively in my forthcoming book, The Laws of Globalization , but let’s consider just a few examples. And Americans convinced everything is now made in China might be interested to know that products made in China accounted for only 2.7% In the U.S., distributors, retailers, and so on. in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2017

After you “sign all the documents that need to be signed” and let “your emotions” cool, “schedule a meeting to debrief,” he says. “You have a golden moment in your job search where you’re operating at peak confidence and energy. “I felt productive, and that kept me going.”

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