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

Harvard Business

exchange over a six-year period (2008 to 2013). ” To parallel this gender inference, we used an algorithm developed by IBM — the IBM InfoSphere Global Name Management Tool — to score the first name of each investment professional, to determine how likely it was that a given member of our sample was female.

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Putting Humans at the Center of Health Care Innovation

Harvard Business

Other Helix projects include tools to “activate” patients before hysterectomy, involving them in decisions about surgery and post-surgical care and recovery; stroke rehabilitation work; and a pilot in pediatric emergency drug safety. Establishing appropriate performance metrics and assigning attribution.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business

Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation. In that year, these improvements resulted in 15,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions avoided and savings of nearly $11 million. billion in mining projects since 2010. Fostering innovation.

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Transformational Leadership: Changing Culture to Fuel Financial Success

Organizational Talent Consulting

Inequity and discrimination result from failure, one person at a time, one action at a time (Greenleaf, 2008). 2008) The servant as leader. However, organizations face serious cultural challenges, including broadly held perceptions of inequity to illegal business practices based on race, sex, language, and other diversity factors.

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Getting the Most from an Online Customer Community

Harvard Business

Over the years, online community research has matured from novelty to necessity – an essential tool for marketing professionals. According to the Market Research Society (MRS) , spending on online research increased 15 percent from 2008 to 2012. The use of communities has grown steadily as a result.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business

Garvin stresses the importance of rigorous experiments (years before experimentation became the rallying cry for a new generation of innovators); thoughtful problem definition; and smart, well-designed metrics. But the main contribution of “Is Yours a Learning Organization?”