Harvard Business

JULY 25, 2017

But our research suggests that a better way to manage low-wage workers in developing economies is to invest in them, which is good for both worker welfare and the company’s bottom line. In July 2013 we implemented a randomized controlled trial in five factory units in Bangalore operated by Shahi Exports Pvt.

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Harvard Business

JULY 26, 2018

On March 25 mighty Uber bowed out of Southeast Asia by selling its operation in several countries to local rival Grab. In 2016 the company sold its China operation to Didi Chuxing because of the fierce competitiveness of the local player. A year later, Uber admitted defeat in another region, selling its operation in Russia to Yandex.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2016

It’s a common complaint among top executives: “I’m spending all my time managing trivial and tactical problems, and I don’t have time to get to the big-picture stuff.” Having risen through the supply chain ranks, she spent most of her time reacting to operational missteps and customer complaints.

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Harvard Business

JULY 4, 2016

Namely, makers need large blocks of uninterrupted time in order to solve complex problems and imagine new solutions. Managers operate at the center of a complex web of customers, external partners, and internal stakeholders. For them, having a meeting at 9 AM and another at 1 PM could destroy the productivity of the entire day.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The shorter workday forced the team to prioritize effectively, limit interruptions, and operate at a much more deliberate level for the first few hours of the day. Make it okay for employees to not be in a hyper-responsive state and schedule uninterrupted time to get into a state of flow. Set Realistic Expectations.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 10, 2016

But the earlier arrivals were a bit bemused by their colleagues, who apparently operated in a different time zone. Although this may sound like a simple holiday anecdote, when different cultural definitions of “on time” spill over to professional projects, people’s reactions can be less than jovial.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2017

Missed medical appointments, or “no-shows,” often create several operational challenges as well, from difficulties rescheduling clinical staff to interference with patient care and treatment. Each year approximately 3.6 They would seek out patterns and aim to define the real problem at hand.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Commercial aircraft fly on autopilot for much of the time. For most pilots, automation usually ensures that operations stay well within safe, predictable limits. Pilots spend much of their time managing and monitoring, rather than actively flying, their aircraft. Automation on the Flight Deck.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2017

At the same time, managers need to continue to motivate employees who fear their jobs being replaced by robots. This creates a dilemma for leaders. Clearly, any enterprise that doesn’t embrace automation won’t be able to survive any better than a farmer with a horse-drawn plow. market share in online sales.

Efficiency 28

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Harvard Business

APRIL 18, 2016

Here are some example objectives from different types of meetings we’ve run recently: Board meeting: Provide Board input as Management formulates the new five-year strategy. Finalize the operating model for strategic governance. Agree on the topics and timing for additional Board input into the current planning cycle.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

In this article, we identify the barriers slowing the transition of episodic, in-person primary care to innovative models that separate care from location and that empower patients to take on more of their own care. Less Time, Better Care. This article is based in part on a paper originally published in Annals of Internal Medicine.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Sometimes it’s been across oceans and time zones (we are a military family), and sometimes it’s been across town (the office was short on space; I was a slave to my children’s schedules; the whole operation was virtual).

How To 28

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 23, 2017

It was meant to be a win-win: Patients and their families would get a better, more personalized hospital experience, and doctors could spend less time managing patients and more time practicing medicine. It was definitely the PCE and the family against me.”

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

It is the notion that, as a company gets bigger, it is able to achieve cost savings through its “scale” or the size of its operations. Members get access to 6 hours of video tutorials on case interviews , the actual frameworks I used to pass my interviews, and over 500 articles on case interviews.

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Harvard Business

JULY 29, 2016

If Richard was hired, he was going to work remotely at least part of the time, and several team members wanted to learn more about Richard’s time management and organizational skills. ” Richard got the job and he starts at InkHouse next month.

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Harvard Business

MAY 24, 2017

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. According to Bain’s Macro Trends Group, the global supply of capital stands at nearly 10 times global GDP. Vincent Tsui for HBR.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 18, 2018

Melissa Waters, CMO of Lyft, says “Any customer these days is asking for transparency on what a company stands for and why they operate. It must be woven into a company’s operational fabric. “The amount of time management teams are spending reacting to dramatic changes in the world is unprecedented.

Marketing 35

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Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2018

In study after study for over a decade, operations researchers have found that retailers understaff during peak hours. Another hidden back-end cost of unstable schedules was the inordinate amount of time managers spent on the schedule: one manager of a large store decreased time spent from three days to four hours.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Does this stalled revolution play out in management positions, too? To explore this, I used data on full-time managers obtained from the U.S. Among the new positions to emerge since 1980, women make up less than 10% of architecture, engineer, and construction managers. And if so, how?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 21, 2017

While there will still be high-stakes, time-sensitive issues like beating a competitor to market with a new product, acknowledge that endurance is the goal, and speed is not the best or only metric of long-term success. You can verbally communicate this with your team, role model it, and create organizational operating principles around it.

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