Harvard Business

MAY 28, 2018

Large companies in industries ranging from retail, to aerospace, to financial services are buying talent and technology to develop new digital capabilities and reinvent themselves quickly. That year, according to our proprietary research, non-tech companies scooped up 707 computer and electronics firms, often at highly inflated prices.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 27, 2017

For example: If the phrase contains the word “mad,” code it as being negative or If the object in the picture has four wheels, tag it as a car. Should it be tagged as a toy? But what happens when the four-wheeled object comes in a box of Cracker-Jacks or a Happy Meal? As a swallowing hazard?

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2016

Between 65% and 75% miss their revenue or profit goals, depending on whose research you look at. We term these product launches “minivations” and they are the result of product developers who don’t realize just how much value their offerings would provide to customers. The luxury SUV that set a record for pre-sales.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Amazon’s big announcement that it will build a second headquarters has caught the attention of local officials, economic development professionals, and pundits across the U.S. The city that lands this historic deal will see its economic and physical landscape transformed, albeit for a hefty price tag in the form of tax breaks.

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Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2022

When to go for project pricing If you're clear what you are looking for – or the consultant was able to develop that clarity together with you – project pricing can be great. Project pricing Project pricing means that you agree with a consultant on a fee upfront, based on a scope of work and timeline. The big upside is its predictability.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Research by myself and others has shown that purposeful organizations outperform their competitors; in his letter Zuckerberg is clearly attempting to outline a sense of purpose for Facebook. But research also suggests that people have a large degree of cynicism toward business leaders who speak about purpose.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

GitHub is a social networking site for web developers to collaborate on open-source code management. It’s a way for developers to display their revisions of public repositories of code. Developing Tomorrow’s Leaders. And simply collecting data is not enough – to be used, data has to be presented usefully.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2018

To link an entry on the blockchain to an actual, real-life baby, we need to give the baby a physical identifier through a physical tag, or in a more futuristic world, a small chip or digital genome record that links the baby to its digital record. And this is where blockchain falls down. There are other parallel examples.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

The Research We’ve Ignored About Happiness at Work. The height of the price tag that workers place on meaning surprised us all. Research shows that all work becomes knowledge work, when workers are given the chance to make it so. And second: How can organizations actually go about fostering meaning? Dan Pontefract.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 18, 2016

Even though these systems are updated regularly, we can no longer rely on standards and measures that were developed in a different age to reflect today’s realities — especially when we’re evaluating tech firms. They have expanded far beyond the “Information Technology” tag attached to them by GICS.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

AUGUST 6, 2010

Of course, even without the prodding from Buffett and Gates, research has borne out that regular folks have always been more generous than the wealthy when it comes to charitable giving. Tags: giving donors the pledge Nonprofit money planning fundraising.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

Unfortunately, the history of IT investments in most organizations is far from stellar: Research over the years suggests that the overall failure rate of IT projects is around 70%. If those linkages cannot be developed, then those investments should not be pursued. Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World.

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freshminds

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

A tag which a smartphone must 'tap' to register it e.g. purchasing cereal by tapping smartphone on the box or to track dosage of medicines given in hospital by whom and when. But as ecommerce and global smart phone usage continues to sky rocket, there is no doubt that IoT will grow and develop exponentially.

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Buzzsprout

JULY 2, 2023

Develop a podcast concept Choosing the right podcast concept for your new podcast is a big part of attracting the right listeners and staying committed to your show. Pick a podcast theme or topic You should feel excited to regularly discuss and research your podcast topic. Search your show's topic in Apple Podcasts.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

DECEMBER 12, 2007

level research and writing but their causes do merit funding. Clients that can afford to pay full scale on the front end are billed in this manner, but those that cannot should not be ignored in the funding process because of self-serving billing practices developed by "grant writing professionals."

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2016

“You’re always moderating yourself,” agrees a Latina executive , who feels Latinas “are always tagged with the emotional thing. Previous CTI research found repression not only impacts employee engagement and morale, but can have serious ramifications for a company’s brand and bottom line.

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Management Consulted

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

I got a lot of very good experience while I was there, learning market research, analysis, DCF calculations, financial valuations, etc. A lot of the people actually keep on calling me really, really weird names, even though I have a name tag. I’ve just loved hearing about your process and development within the world of consulting.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2016

Since 2011, General Electric has publicly stated it would spend more than $1 billion on developing sensors, wireless devices, and related software to install on its aircraft engines, power turbines, locomotive trains and other machinery. We’ve all seen some eye-bulging numbers in recent years about the internet of things (IoT).

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Harvard Business

MARCH 1, 2017

By diving into the data, we were able to dramatically reduce customer dissatisfaction, increase customer loyalty, and develop new, differentiating service offerings. The team discovered that guests often tag the clothes they wear with designer names when they take selfies at our hotels and post them on Facebook and Instagram.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2018

Research has found that several biases come up again and again when managers are evaluating a team member. The manager can keep a tally of how many meetings the person leads and how many times the person tag-teams with a coworker on a project. Here are three of them, what they’re all about, and how to address each one.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 15, 2016

Devoid of resources for data collection, they tagged along on L’Oréal roadshows, collecting skin tone measurements from thousands of women of color across the country. She couldn’t get the image out of her head, so she began to research the technology requirements.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

JUNE 16, 2006

Connections mean nothing I can't even count how many times I have submitted an un-invited grant proposal to a foundation based only on my research, without having even one phone conversation or email exchanged between us, and had that proposal fully funded. Except in those situations where it does. Let me explain further.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

In a recent Goldman Sachs research report about the promise of gene therapies, analysts asked a question that gets to the heart of a growing dilemma for the healthcare sector: “Is curing patients a sustainable business model? For instance, the authors suppose, what if a genetic cure for Type 2 diabetes was developed?

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Tom Spencer

JULY 14, 2018

Frequently, drug manufacturers cite research and development costs when defending high prescription prices. However, research that leads to drug discovery is usually funded by the National Institutes of Health , by venture capital, or other wealthy benefactors. R&D Costs.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2017

We argue that, like previous revolutionary ideas, blockchain has the potential to help developing nations leapfrog more-developed economies. This in turn boosted development by allowing relatively poor farmers to reliably send and receive payments at affordable rates, fostering economic growth by lowering transaction costs.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 7, 2018

Our research into firms that have succeeded in Africa highlights two essential requirements: the imagination to see the continent’s unmet needs as opportunities for growth, and the long-term commitment to build businesses of meaningful scale. In Nigeria, for example, SABMiller developed a new brand, Hero.

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Confessions of a Consultant

DECEMBER 2, 2018

research highlighted that more than 70% of survey participants had a similar experience (to the best of my knowledge, no similar survey data exists in Ireland; we can only guess the numbers). She was in her early 20’s (while I normally do some research for this Blog, in this specific case I didn’t actually check their Birth Certificates).

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2018

This means better integrating marketing and IT, and developing systems around the information needs of the senior management team instead of creating a culture of “capture data and pray.” Only then can firms completely understand their customers via analytics, and develop customized experiences to delight them.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 26, 2018

When researchers in China gave a survey to 197 adults before and after traveling, they uncovered similar influences on the exertion of effort to attend to pronounced cultural differences in normalized values and behavioral patterns in everyday social interactions. But holidays are a terrific self-development opportunity.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 27, 2018

” These examples are merely the tip of the iceberg; systematic research indicates that sleep deprivation is very common among leaders even at lower levels of organizations. If you have no team members who are qualified to do the work, either further develop the ones you have or recruit new team members who are qualified.

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