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3 Tactics for Accelerating Company Performance Despite an Economic Downturn

Organizational Talent Consulting

They make companies more competitive and create sustainable business growth. Bain & Company found that 47% more S&P 500 businesses moved from the bottom quartile to the top half, and 89% more dropped from the top quartile to the bottom half during economic downturns compared to periods of strong economic growth. Douglas, R.

Company 52
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How to Solve Your Talent Challenge (Creatively)

Organizational Talent Consulting

Most companies have record-high voluntary employee turnover rates, and more than half of employees only do the minimum required at work. Recently economists have connected what is now labeled Quiet Quitting to a fall in US labor productivity output. We make a lot of the products you buy better.".

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How Our Company Connected Our Strategy to Sustainability Goals

Harvard Business

In a recent survey , Bain & Company found that just 2% of companies are successful in achieving their sustainability goals. However, like many of the companies surveyed by Bain, we were unsure how to connect our strategic vision around sustainability with meaningful operational changes. Simone Golob/Getty Images.

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Do Your Customers Actually Want a “Smart” Version of Your Product?

Harvard Business

.” The stampede to connect anything and everything in the home to a mobile app – a stampede that I’d argue has been driven by grossly inflated numbers and speculation – has the potential to lure companies into unfamiliar territory, with no guarantee of a safe or profitable return. I know because I’ve been there.

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Breaking down the M&A Case Study

Tom Spencer

Now that you have a high-level understanding of why companies buy each other in the first place (refer to M&A deals – benefits and drawbacks ), let’s discuss the framework you should use to analyze the transaction. Here are some of the questions you could dive into: Are both companies (buyer / target) in the same markets (e.g.

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How a Flex-Time Program at MIT Improved Productivity, Resilience, and Trust

Harvard Business

In its 2014 survey on workplace flexibility, the Society for Human Resource Management found that one-third of companies participating in the survey saw a decrease in absenteeism after they implemented flex-time policies. That benefit should reap results in healthier and happier employees who take fewer unplanned sick days.

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Oil Patch Problems: Rigs Down 60%, Production Down 3%, $40-$50 Price Doesn't Work

MishTalk

So even as rig counts collapsed, production is barely off the highs, at a price that isn't even profitable. companies have stunned global rivals by continuing to produce oil—particularly from shale deposits—ever more cheaply as American crude prices plunged from over $100 a barrel in 2014. oil producer, said in an interview.