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We Can’t Study Short-Termism Without the Right Metrics

Harvard Business

I have worked on research that has found that a strong company culture is associated with lower levels of myopic decision making, better productivity, and innovation. For instance, Home Depot, despite a painful housing market–led recession, retained most of its hourly workers and their benefits in 2008–2009.

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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

One research study suggests that followers contribute on average 80% to the success of an organization. While working with a large Forbes Top 25 Private Company, we quantified the value of leadership using internal key business metrics and various cognitive and behavioral leader assessments.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business

In the largest study on climate change data and corporations, 8,000 supplier companies (that sell to 75 multinationals) reported on their level of climate risk. Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate.

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How Microsoft Used an Office Move to Boost Collaboration

Harvard Business

What type of office design is best for productivity and engagement? ” Another study demonstrated that the noise resulting from open office designs is a huge drain on employee morale. ” Workplace layout also influenced team productivity and collaboration. Today, this common question tends to have two distinct answers.

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business

We have closely studied three of these models: The Helix Center at Imperial College London, the Center for Innovation at the Mayo Clinic, and the Consortium for Medical Technologies at Massachusetts General Hospital. Establishing appropriate performance metrics and assigning attribution.

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Immigrants Play a Disproportionate Role in American Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business

Good statistics on immigrant entrepreneurship are exceptionally difficult to assemble, and therefore it’s challenging to create productive policies. This platform gives us a comprehensive view of immigrant entrepreneurship over a long duration (1995 – 2008). The database currently covers 31 U.S.

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Recession is On the Way: Questioning One's Sanity; Beat the Crowd, Panic Now!

MishTalk

US Recession The US won''t decouple, just as China did not decouple from the global economy in 2008-2009 (a widely-held thesis I also knocked at the time). Fed Study Shows "Persistent Fed Overoptimism" The Society General report is all the more amusing because nearly every Fed economic forecast has been on the optimistic side since 2007.

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