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Case Study: Can You Fix a Toxic Culture Without Firing People?

Harvard Business

Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. She’d gone to Arkansas to review operational plans and financial projections for the rest of the year with the team on the ground. ” Two Days Earlier.

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Infosys Consulting Interviews & Culture

Management Consulted

Birthed in 2004 as a spin-off of Indian tech outsourcing behemoth Infosys Technologies, Infosys Consulting is quickly climbing the charts as an industry leader in IT Operations and Strategy consulting. IT Operations. Supply Chain and Operations Processes. SAP Operational Excellence. INFOSYS CONSULTING CULTURE.

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Cornerstone Research Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

From starting with under 50 employees to over 500 staff members today, Cornerstone has grown successfully without losing the familial culture that was so important to its co-founders. The firm pays extremely well, does impactful work and employees rave about the great company culture and the smarts of their co-workers.

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9 Out of 10 People Are Willing to Earn Less Money to Do More-Meaningful Work

Harvard Business

Why, then, haven’t more organizations taken concrete actions to focus their cultures on the creation of meaning? First, any business case hinges on the ability to translate meaning, as an abstraction, into dollars. increase in annual operating profits. increase in annual operating profits.

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Staying Focused in a Noisy Open Office

Harvard Business

” As a team, your collective goal is to come up with “agreed-upon norms that you’ll all operate within,” says Burkus. You should take full advantage of empty conference rooms, semi-private cubicles, and quiet alcoves, says Burkus. Case Study #2: Develop ground rules and find a way to quiet your brain.

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7 Factors of Great Office Design

Harvard Business

An office environment reflects and reinforces a business’s core values, through the placement of different teams and functions and design elements that reflect culture, brand, and values. To illustrate how this all plays out on a larger scale in real companies, here are two mini case studies from businesses we’ve worked with.

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How to Break Your Addiction to Work

Harvard Business

“We live in a culture where work demands and deserves our undivided allegiance,” she says. Case Study #1: Seek encouragement and reset your colleagues’ expectations. ” Case Study #2: Take control of your use of electronics. And that sort of devotion does have its benefits.

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