Tom Spencer

MAY 6, 2018

Leading up to the summer before my senior year of college I was searching through Google for my next travel destination when a pop-up ad directed me to a website about Mongolia, the land of nomadic culture and once the largest contiguous empire founded by Genghis Khan.

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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?

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Keep your operating system up-to-date, and back up your phone regularly. Keep your phone as “clean” as possible by moving photos and documents and photos from it to a more secure device. Turn off your devices when not in use (do not just hibernate them), especially when traveling.

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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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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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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 3, 2012

While I was working with them, the focus of my PhD gradually shifted toward how economic integration and various factors (domestic, international, political, economic) have impacted Japanese companies’ corporate strategy and operations over the past couple of decades. ” “Was attracted by the following attributes of consulting.

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MishTalk

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

The hack was perpetrated by a joint unit consisting of operatives from the NSA and its British counterpart Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ. The company operates in 85 countries and has more than 40 manufacturing facilities. passports, which contain chips and antennas that can be used to better authenticate travelers.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 11, 2017

Spreadsheet summaries, checklists, flow charts documenting complex operations, project planning meetings …pretend you’re from McKinsey, and your job is to help the organization manage without you. You’ve decided to leave the organization, and the decision was driven by your needs as a working parent.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 23, 2014

The decline in the ruble has affected foreign travel plans, but the public has only recently begun feeling the real impact of these factors, particularly through inflation. In 1953 the US and UK orchestrated the Iranian coup d''état in an operation called " Operation Boot " in the UK and the " TPAJAX Project " in the US.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

German police said they had detained five suspects in Alsdorf, a small town near the border with Belgium and the Netherlands, in an operation the DPA news agency said was linked to the Paris attack. He had already traveled and returned from Syria. But there are indications the actual number may be higher.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

“My guess is that one hundred percent of United’s employees are superconsumers of travel,” he said. “The romance of travel is near and dear to everyone’s heart. There can be a lot of stress in this industry. It’s not for everyone. Adapted from.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 21, 2016

Mention the word “plan” to most managers and the image that springs to their minds might well be a travel plan. ” The result is much the same as with travel: a specific beginning and end with precise steps along the way. Their image is more of the house-plan type or travel itinerary. What does that involve?

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Management Consulted

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

In 2004, the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) awarded Andy and Prabha the Marketing Science Practice Prize for outstanding implementation of marketing science concepts and methods, recognizing the sales territory alignment system they had developed and implemented through the work of ZS Associates.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Buck Consultants now operates out of multiple offices globally with a clientele that includes 45% of Fortune 100 companies. Then, in 2010, Xerox acquired ACS for $6.4B, making Buck a Xerox company and a global leader in HR solutions. BUCK CONSULTANTS ORGANIZATION. Practice Areas. Communication. Compensation. HR technology. Administration.

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Women in Consulting

MARCH 18, 2014

Certain amounts on the return can trigger this: high mortgage interest, high charitable contributions, high business expenses, business losses for many years, no W-2s for Officers, high travel expenses, etc. Give them only the documents needed to support the deduction being questioned. This can look like a “fishing expedition.”

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Women in Consulting

APRIL 21, 2016

Certain amounts on the return can trigger this: high mortgage interest, high charitable contributions, high business expenses, business losses for many years, no W-2s for Officers, high travel expenses, etc. – Give them only the documents needed to support the deduction being questioned. DOs & DON’Ts. Be prepared!

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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

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. ” Pace yourself.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

To find out, we investigated the effect of air pollution on call-center workers at Ctrip, China’s largest travel agency. Several aspects of the firm’s operations allowed us to credibly isolate the effect of pollution on productivity. If they’re affected by pollution, then we might all be vulnerable.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Finance , the Indian economy is operating with $45 billion less cash than it did prior to demonization. The India Stack could now have four layers: an identity layer, a documents layer, a payments layer, and a transactions layer. The result?

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2017

The Dubai Blockchain Strategy (disclosure: Vinay is the designer) envisions moving all government documents — more than 100 million documents per year — onto a blockchain by 2020, creating a new platform for innovation and huge cost savings. All the goods flowing in and out of developing world countries could be tagged.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

A Harvard Business School case study that Robert Huckman, Sam Travers, and I wrote earlier this year documents what came next. Making service better in accordance with VA’s mission continues to attract new patients, forcing the organization to find new ways to get more out of its operation. The stakes, in other words, were high.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

A wealth of academic literature has documented how high-skilled immigrants, particularly in STEM , and including those who would enter the U.S. have lobbied against making the H-1B program more restrictive, arguing that they help American companies become more competitive by handling their IT operations.

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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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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. Traveling and living abroad seems to broaden individuals’ perspectives while also improving creativity. In the U.S., Going forward, we will localize… We will produce for the U.S. in the U.S.,

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