Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

On the contrary, academic research and business experience point to quite the opposite. Drawing from our own research and our colleagues’ research in this area, we have created a sustainability business case for the 21 st century corporate executive. Since its launch in 2012, Flyknit has reduced 3.5

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2017

During the Great Recession of 2008, companies around the world downsized their workforces. American firms alone laid off more than 8 million workers from the end of 2008 to the middle of 2010. We add to this debate with our new research, which indicates that downsizing may actually increase the likelihood of bankruptcy.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 21, 2014

Today''s information technology allows a multinational company to position research, marketing, finance and managerial jobs to anywhere. The 2008 crisis prompted a pause. In the decade before the 2008 financial crisis, trade was driving growth. It increases growth potential through higher efficiency.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

The McKinsey Global Institute, in conjunction with FCLT Global, recently released research stating that long-term-oriented companies perform better than those that focus on short-term results. This measure has been validated by extensive academic research. So this measure may mislabel efficient companies as myopic.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

Keep in mind that many retail and restaurant jobs require nonroutine manual labor, physical dexterity, and social interaction, which, according to MIT researchers Daron Acemoglu and David Autor , are less amenable to automation. Customers will need to be educated and supported along the way to greater efficiencies.

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Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 15, 2020

When Andy Frawley took on the roles of Chief Executive Officer and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors in July 2018, the company faced several challenges, including business inefficiencies stemming from a recent merger and inapt product and go-to-market strategies. coaching) and functional (e.g., computer skills) training.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2017

And in January 2017, McKinsey’s research arm estimated AI-driven job losses at 5%. Yet our research also found that, in the shorter term, these fears may be overblown. What about the automation of the production line? And it wasn’t just to detect a hacker’s moves in the data center. bribes and kickbacks).

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2016

What type of office design is best for productivity and engagement? We came to this hypothesis in part due to early research by Gina Venolia, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research , who conducted a 2008 study that examined the special problems faced by remote teammates at Microsoft. 77 hours compared to.85

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

In the 1930s, Elton Mayo ignited the Human Relations movement by documenting the productivity boost that came with treating assembly line workers with dignity and care. The movement challenged the influence of Fredrick Taylor’s scientific management, which had reduced workers to unwieldy cogs in efficiency-seeking industrial machines.

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Consultant Ninja

JULY 27, 2009

I fail to see the logic that the government will be more efficient at building operational structures than the private sector. They also happen to be expensive, not because some greedy fat cat is out there, but because that high price justifies the ROI for the R&D in that product in the first place. Posted by Consultant Ninja.

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Consultant Ninja

JUNE 4, 2009

Scientists/Professors/Engineers Research is shared publicly, published papers, conferences, teaching universities Military Officers Army War College, joint training exercises, officer exchange programs, published books Auditors/Accountants FAS rulings, journals, filings with the SEC. Productivity. (6). So there you go. Post a Comment.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 5, 2018

The chief marketing officers at consumer products companies, the heads of design at luxury apparel companies, and the heads of logistics at large retailers are cases in point. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 11, 2017

The companies that are most vocal about environmental and social issues tend to be big, mass-market brands — well-known retailers , consumer products giants , and tech firms that are telling a new story to consumers who increasingly care about sustainability. Like many luxury brands, Krug was struggling after the 2008 financial crisis.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 27, 2018

Consumers almost always tell researchers that they prefer to have many versions of a product from which to choose. For retailers, that difference has big implications for the problem of assortment — how many variations of a single product to offer. Holger Weitzel/Getty Images. They will therefore prefer a large assortment.

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Organizational Talent Consulting

AUGUST 7, 2023

Scholarly research directly linked the effects of an organization's culture on customer satisfaction, employee teamwork, cohesion, employee involvement, and innovation (Gregory et al., A global survey of over 5000 CEOs revealed that greater than 60 percent of organizations anticipate introducing new products or services to fuel their growth.

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Harvard Business

MAY 11, 2016

The best-performing companies seem to be pulling away from the rest, according to a growing body of research, and that fact explains a large part of the growth in inequality between individuals. Since 2000 productivity growth at the most productive “frontier” firms has sharply outpaced the average.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

Cross-border flows of digitally transmitted data have grown manifold, accounting for more than one-third of the increase in global GDP in 2014, even as the free-flow of goods and services and cross-border capital have ebbed in the aftermath of the 2008 recession. that help propagate new products, ideas and business models?).

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The HITECH Act, which was part of the federal stimulus program enacted in response to the financial crisis of 2008, tasked the Obama administration and its Department of Health and Human Services with creating a nationwide, interoperable, private, and secure electronic-health-information system.

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Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2017

To reduce costs, they have shifted production to countries with low-paid workers, thereby increasing demand for their labor and increasing their wages. This has spread advanced production techniques and management practices around the world, dramatically improving productivity. But this ascendancy is under threat. ”

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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. on H-1B visas, boost the economy by increasing innovation, productivity, and sometimes even employment.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 5, 2017

Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. But in the last two contests in which Hillary Clinton has participated, the 2008 primary and the 2016 election, she won on most of these metrics — and lost the elections. The implications are threefold: The best product doesn’t always win.

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MishTalk

JUNE 22, 2014

However, greenhouse gas production is a global thing so it''s important to consider global ramifications of US policy decisions. regulation will breathe life into state-level cap-and-trade programs,” said Peter Shattuck, director of market initiatives at ENE, a Boston-based climate policy advocacy and research organization. This E.P.A.

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