Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2017

Change management can be a test for any organization. Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. Change management certainly tested us. What words evoked the passion they felt about the organization? What values drove them?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 29, 2016

In-depth interviews with these leaders provide some insight and solutions that can help us when we do face these quandaries. Companies can warp their own ethical climate by pushing too much change from the top, too quickly and too frequently. and the U.K., many of us face an endless stream of ethical dilemmas at work. Mark Chussil.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 29, 2016

Success was measured quantitatively by the firm’s performance (profit and growth) vs. that of its competitors, and also qualitatively by interviews with senior executives who were involved, but not deeply invested, in the efforts (typically the CFO). In all too many cases, the CEO devoted little time to trying to manage this dynamic.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 20, 2017

To better understand what stands in the way of adoption, and what facilitates successful implementation, we interviewed 34 key figures from leading U.S. Success depends on the time, effort, and resources set aside for communication, change management, and making the tool a seamless part of user workflow.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Most modern health care improvements seem to involve expensive technology and an uncomfortable amount of change management. We conducted interviews with staff members in the hospital, nursing home, and rehabilitation center, and conducted an informal survey after the initial exercise.). Kelly Sillaste/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

MAY 21, 2018

To uncover the human facets and the consistent challenges of M&A, I interviewed 55 executives from multinational to small- to medium-size companies all over the world. As part of my consulting work on mergers and acquisitions, I created a playbook that defines the best practices for optimizing the human side of M&A.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2017

Godbout: I have yet to see the case study of massive change management of innovation where a group of people came in and, like a whirlwind, changed everyone’s thoughts and executed the whole thing themselves. I used to tell people I interviewed for 18F, “This is the Super Bowl of change management.”

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

Sixteen women were interviewed and seven others participated in a focus group. In her organization, there was debate about whether their associates should change managers. After hearing feedback from all across the world, she chose to have employees change managers, even though it was unpopular among some.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 5, 2018

To better understand the tension between control and freedom in new roles, we analyzed more than 4000 pages of interview data, company documents, and media reports from 21 organizations that recently established a “sustainability manager” position and appointed someone to the role.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 30, 2018

Instead, they sought to reenergize and leverage their own people, but, Karvinen explained, “We also did not just want to handpick the usual senior managers we had always worked with before, because we knew that, in order to drive the transformation of the company, we needed new and fresh perspectives.”

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Harvard Business

MAY 19, 2016

To address these questions, Coty partnered with Kotter International to implement a broad global change management program. Interview those individuals for fit. How can we as leaders help our front-line teams take more action to innovate and improve how work gets done? Devise an approach and plan.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 12, 2018

“Technically, cars today are very different from ten years ago,” says Sällström, whom we interviewed for our book, Talent Wins. The result was clear: to move into the premium-brand tier, Volvo needed new people with different skills. “Once, you needed mechanical engineers.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The findings from the survey closely track with anecdotal information gathered by our research team during interviews with men working in a Silicon Valley technology startup who were trying to implement initiatives for improving gender parity.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Kassir Hussain, former director of Connected Home, told us: “In a space that can often be confusing and frustrating to consumers, our focus on regular user interviews, meetings, tests, and demos allowed us to build a product that was simple, easy to use, and addressed real consumer needs.”

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Harvard Business

JUNE 13, 2017

The list gave middle managers clarity about what to do, certainly, but it told them nothing about why they were doing it, or how their myriad activities might fit together to create a cohesive program. “Conduct exit interviews with all departing customers” became “reduce the customer attrition rate,” for example.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

We interviewed these 411 leaders, as well as those who work for them, analyzed their education, background, and experience and recorded their actions and impact using 64 investment variables and 24 performance measures over seven years. Academies have devolved decision-making powers enabling them to bypass local government.)

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Harvard Business

MAY 3, 2016

HBS Executive Education brings you these articles about business management courtesy of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. And Gulati’s research, including interviews with 500 executives spanning industries and geographies, asserts that outside-in success is not confined to any one sector. How do they do it?

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 18, 2018

Follow-up qualitative interviews with 10 participants revealed that harassment was often ignored or taken to be “part of the job,” by both targets of the harassment and the coworkers who witnessed it. Second, managers should be required to complete training on sexual harassment.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

And once they found it, it didn’t need careful change management to extend it to the rest of Customer Support. Peter Mason/Getty Images. Fintona Financial (not the company’s real name) had a problem. ” Yeah, ouch. No market research or benchmarking data would have suggested it. Make It Safe to Ask for Help.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Pharma PPM Toolbox Conference 2024 April, 17-18, Basel, Switzerland The event is dedicated to discussing the key success factors of project portfolio management in the pharmaceutical industry – portfolio evaluation, prioritization, and optimization.

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Harvard Business

MAY 12, 2016

Recent research on change management teams, virtual teams and new startup teams has shown that teams in which leadership is shared, rather than vested on a single individual, can be very effective, demonstrating through quantitative methods that shared leadership can, and does, lead to improved organizational performance.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

And we interviewed the leaders and their teams to understand the challenges they faced, when they occurred, and how they overcame them. We studied them over eight years, using 64 investment and 24 performance variables to identify what they did, when they did it, and the impact they had.

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Harmonious Workplaces

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

People Make the Difference Celebrated quantum-theory physicist and author Michio Kaku highlighted in an interview the fact that AI such as ChatGPT, Bard, and Bing return the works of other people purely (JRE, 2023). Apparently, we may just have reached that point in some people’s eyes. These programs do not use reasoning or critical thinking.

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Harvard Business

MAY 30, 2018

The greedy nature of our work (asking us to wear more hats, to do more, to be always on ), combined with the demands of our personal lives and social pressure to be and focus on just one thing, means we need to learn how to manage our portfolio of different identities and the expectations that come with them. Do others think of you this way?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Interview questions were designed to test applicants for these traits. ” Some interview questions were used to test multiple competencies at once. .” ” Some interview questions were used to test multiple competencies at once. It’s important to understand unmet and latent needs.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 14, 2016

To gain insight into these questions, we are interviewing executives at academic health systems. Thus far, we have interviewed executives of systems affiliated with these universities: Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, Virginia Commonwealth, and the University of Utah. Most of the interviewed executives favor this latter approach.

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