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Case Study: Can You Fix a Toxic Culture Without Firing People?

Harvard Business

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. As CFO, Noelle was, of course, concerned about the numbers.

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Advisory Board Company Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

The firm also started growing rapidly through M&A, acquiring Crimson, an analytics, data, and business intelligence software provider focused on analytics related to physician performance, healthcare practice quality and cost management in 2008. In 2010, the firm established a new office in San Francisco. All phases of the revenue cycle.

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What Happens When Public Unions Control Everything for Decades? (Hint: Look at Chicago and the State of Illinois)

MishTalk

This idea is what Barack Obama had in mind in 2008 when he said he will redistribute money to the working class and poor. Of course, Illinois is not the only state dominated by high Democrat taxes and public sector spending but it serves as a good case study of what Democrats do when they have total control of budgets for decades.

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Research: Self-Disruption Can Hurt the Companies That Need It the Most

Harvard Business

That’s valuable information, of course, but it shines no light on the problem of how to respond to potentially threatening innovation that has yet to generate a dominant new business model. For our study, we collected data on 512 strategic initiatives, both centralized and decentralized, launched by 48 leading U.S.

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How to Apply for a Job You’re Overqualified For

Harvard Business

Case Study #1: Be thoughtful about how you position yourself to the hiring manager. In 2008, after the global economy took a nosedive, the company that Lauren McAdams was working for went belly up. Case Study #2: Express enthusiasm for the job, and demonstrate how you will add value.