Harvard Business

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Cofounded by Michael Murphy, a Harvard-trained architect who has devoted himself to improving the social impact of built environments, MASS is changing the way hospitals are designed and constructed. Chan School of Public Health.

Construction 28

Construction Engineering Benchmarking Nonprofit 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Another pervasive reason is that senior executives are trained as operators, not innovators. While the execution of a conventional strategy lends itself to linear progress and clear benchmarks, innovation often proceeds by S-curves , moving at a slow crawl until it explodes at an exponential rate.

ROI 28

ROI Operations Enterprise Research 28

Tom Spencer

AUGUST 3, 2019

If you have views on on-boarding, shaping, and training young product managers, you can effectively mold these programs to fit your vision. There is no clear benchmark for which category a given company falls into. On the other hand, being a part of a novice APM program gives you the chance to build something new.

Productivity 60

Productivity How To Recruiting Recruitment 60

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Research shows that, after salary reaches a (relatively low) level, workers value nonpecuniary factors more highly, such as on-the-job training, flexible working conditions, and opportunities for advancement. But this $1 billion provides a benchmark against which to compare the pay of $10 million, to decide whether it’s fair.

Talent 38

Talent Video Industry Study 38

Harvard Business

JUNE 12, 2017

“If we don’t see male kindergarten teachers or female engineers we don’t naturally associate women and men with those jobs, and we apply different standards” when hiring, promoting and evaluating job performance. Gino recommends managers look into providing workers with education and training on the topic.

Case Interview 28

Case Interview Interviews Resumes Software 28

MishTalk

JULY 11, 2014

It is essential to move away from debt as the main engine of growth. " In addition, official statistics may underestimate intangible investment (spending on research and development, training, etc), which has been gaining importance in serviced-based economies. Financial cycles differ from business cycles.

Balance Sheet 74

Balance Sheet Financial Banking Policies 74

Confessions of a Consultant

AUGUST 12, 2018

Discussing salary surveys and benchmarking, particularly regarding key competitors (or referring to former staff and how great their ‘new job’ is). I found it hard to believe myself – until we factored in the ‘waste’ of very high raw cost materials (silicon) that a new employee destroyed during a 9-month training period.

Talent 40

Talent Case Interview Engineering Interviews 40

Harvard Business

MARCH 9, 2018

The British press “constantly ran stories criticizing his ‘lone wolf’ approach,” Bryant notes, and urged him to adopt a more conventional regimen of training and coaching. Was there a genetic engineering experiment that created a new race of super runners? In business, progress does not move in straight lines.

Benchmarking 75

Benchmarking Sports Engineering Leadership 75

Harvard Business

MARCH 26, 2018

While the research has not been specifically remedy-directed, where gender-based bias has been discovered some have sought to counter it with HR policy changes, training, awareness campaigns, equal opportunity legislation, and more. No small part of these countermeasures have been directed at women themselves.

Talent 45

Talent Benchmarking Research Training 45

Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Since 2001, English has been the international language of pilots and air traffic controllers, and airlines across the world have invested in English training programs for pilots, flight attendants, and other customer-facing staff. Benchmark English proficiency. Recognize the need for personalized sector-specific training.

Industry 28

Industry Survey Training Training 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

Take architectural and engineering firm EYP as an example. An early in-house program called A16 treated 16 junior architects to 16 weeks of intensive training, including knowledge mentorship from highly experienced architects.

Development 28

Development Education Engineering Benchmarking 28

Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

The event brings together experienced project management practitioners from various industries: finance, technology, pharma, telecommunications, engineering, and more. 15th IRNOP Conference June, 11-14, Stockholm, Sweden IRNOP annual conference brings together scholars who have a background in business, engineering, economics, etc.

Industry 52

Industry Automotive Pharmaceuticals Management 52

Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2017

I’ll fast-forward through the next decade, when Garvin, trained in operations, helped to answer the question much of America was obsessed with at the time: How Japanese automakers could make higher-quality, more-reliable cars than Americans, while charging less for them.

Management 37

Management Turnaround Engineering Benchmarking 37

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 8, 2016

We trained our algorithms to predict the overall crime rate for the defendents eligible for bail. In bail, it turns out that different forms of crime are correlated enough so that an algorithm trained on just one type of crime winds up out-predicting judges on almost every measure of criminality we could construct, including violent crime.

Tools 28

Tools Policies Data System 28