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

Harvard Business

For instance, Home Depot, despite a painful housing market–led recession, retained most of its hourly workers and their benefits in 2008–2009. One way to gauge this is in how a firm treats its workforce in bad times. Home Depot’s stock performance in the subsequent years has been stellar.

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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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Research: Objective Performance Metrics Are Not Enough to Overcome Gender Bias

Harvard Business

In this research , we studied investment professionals who are arguably disincentivized to incorporate gender, or any characteristic not directly tied to quality, in their evaluations of investment opportunities. .” exchange over a six-year period (2008 to 2013).

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Transformational Leadership: Changing Culture to Fuel Financial Success

Organizational Talent Consulting

Culture has been studied for many years resulting in many different models and definitions. A study involving more than 1000 executive leaders demonstrated that 80% of organizations with a mature approach to data analytics exceeded their goals, and 48% significantly exceeded their goals (Deloitte, 2019). 2008) The servant as leader.

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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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How Microsoft Used an Office Move to Boost Collaboration

Harvard Business

.” On the other hand is research about people’s preferences, like this 2013 study in the Journal of Environmental Psychology that, according to its authors, “categorically contradict[s] the industry-accepted wisdom that open-plan layout enhances communication between colleagues and improves occupants.”

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

We recently completed a study for the CEO of a very well known, global sports-apparel brand company. At a glance, the study revealed these themes: There is no common pattern for a ‘best organization design’ regardless of size, strategy, or industry. Let’s look at each of the five as they played out in our study companies.

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