Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

In the 2001 recession, total sales for the S&P 500 declined by 9% from its pre-recession peak to its trough 18 months later—almost a year after the recession officially ended. Worse, most don’t have a quantified view of profitability by customer, product line and transaction. billion vs. $1.2

Sales 33

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 4, 2017

recessions (1991, 2001, 2007–09) have been jobless, meaning that employment was slow to rebound despite recovery in total economic output. production and operatives). That is, rather than disappearing entirely, surviving routine-cognitive occupations appear to have become both relatively higher-skilled and more productive.

Trends 28

Trends Education Policies Research 28

Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

While there’s often increased pressure to be more productive in the office, it’s sometimes hard not to wonder, “What’s the point?” “We had to train harder, measure our goals better, and become a better team,” Bunge said. As a start, staff members had to become stronger, in more ways than one.

Sports 28

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Harvard Business

JUNE 14, 2016

You’ll get invaluable training, improve your business judgment, and build your confidence. ” Toby did everything his father asked, joining The Bozzuto Group in 2001 as a development associate. Work somewhere else first. You’ll also gain much-needed perspective on what you hope the arc of your career might look like.

Real Estate 28

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2017

One of the conundrums of ethical decision making is that many moral decisions that are quite straightforward — even easy — to resolve in a classroom or during training exercises seem far more difficult to successfully resolve when confronted during actual day-to-day decision making.

Ethics 28

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

An outside-in perspective means that companies aim to creatively deliver something of value to customers, rather than focus simply on products and sales. It’s worth noting that the companies and business units in my study were tracked between 2001 and 2007. Bagged salad would not have risen to what is now, a $2.5-billion-a-year

Education 28

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Harvard Business

MAY 11, 2016

The result, at least in developed nations, is a highly unequal corporate landscape, where some firms are incredibly productive and the amount of money a person makes is tied to the company they work for, not just the job that they do. And this growing productivity gap shows up within industries, not just between them.

McKinsey 28

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Opium Production at Record High That story was from 2010. An article from January of 2014 highlights the "success" of US opium strategy: Afghan opium production on the rise despite U.S. An article from January of 2014 highlights the "success" of US opium strategy: Afghan opium production on the rise despite U.S.

Policies 76

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2017

I’ll fast-forward through the next decade, when Garvin, trained in operations, helped to answer the question much of America was obsessed with at the time: How Japanese automakers could make higher-quality, more-reliable cars than Americans, while charging less for them.

Management 30

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Recent research suggests that Chinese imports, over the 12 years after the country’s WTO entry in 2001, took in excess of an estimated two million jobs out of U.S. made products over the next 10 years. He could do this by insisting on reciprocity in access on a product-by-product basis, otherwise China loses its U.S.

Intellectual Property 28

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