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Transforming Today’s Bad Jobs into Tomorrow’s Good Jobs

Harvard Business

Companies that offer good jobs today — with decent wages, predictable schedules, and opportunities for success and growth — do so by combining investment in people with operational choices that increase their employees’ productivity and contributions. We call this approach the Good Jobs Strategy.

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Brews, News and Booz & Company: Interview and Culture Insights

Management Consulted

2008 was when the split came, and Booz Allen Hamilton (parent company) divided in 2. The firm sold a majority stake in the US government business for $2.45B to the Carlyle Group (Booz Allen Hamilton) and Booz & Company, owned and operated as a partnership, assumed the commercial strategy role. Operations and Logistics.

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What Uber’s China Deal Says About the Limits of Platforms

Harvard Business

On August 1 Uber announced that it is selling its Chinese brand and operations to Didi Chuxing for $1 billion, its annual burn rate in that market, in exchange for a 20% stake in the local competitor. And that the two companies’ CEOs, Travis Kalanick and Cheng Wei, would take seats on each other’s boards.

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ZS Associates Firm Profile

Management Consulted

Today’s emphasis is on ZS Associates (pronounced Zee S in the USA) – a premier boutique firm focused on sales force and marketing optimization. Upon realizing that their findings were highly applicable to the problems of sales force sizing and resource allocation, they decided to investigate further. sales force teams.

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How disruptive is the 'Sharing Economy'?

freshminds

Airbnb Since its launch in San Francisco in 2008 between two friends renting their home out during a conference in the city, this online bed booking service offers over 250,000 rooms provided by private individuals in in over 30,000 cities in 192 countries. billion since its launch.

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60 Countries’ Digital Competitiveness, Indexed

Harvard Business

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. ” In many countries, several websites or digital companies are blocked.