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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

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. The smaller ones could keep their own names, leadership teams, practices, and policies for the first five years. “I want my company to be just as entrepreneurial.”

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IT Consulting: What’s All the Fuss about ‘Soft Skills’

Tom Spencer

I believe this is especially the case with ‘soft skills’, a term which is often mocked as an empty excuse for applying to undersubscribed university courses. Nevertheless, a case study of the IT consulting segment can readily showcase the real-life application of soft skills.

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M&A deals – benefits and drawbacks

Tom Spencer

Many consulting, corporate strategy, and corporate development roles require the interviewee to go through an M&A case study. Depending on the firm and specific role this case could be very strategic and operational like doing a market entry/growth-type case or very technical (i.e. Benefits of Combining Forces.

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2024 Events for Project Managers, Business Leaders, and Industry Professionals

Epicflow

The conference’s agenda involves keynotes, presentations, case studies, and interviews with leading pharma experts dealing with project portfolio management. The program of the symposium includes case studies, lessons learned, academic research, actionable tips, and more.

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Want Less-Biased Decisions? Use Algorithms.

Harvard Business

How companies are using artificial intelligence in their business operations. But there is a pattern among these critics, which is that they rarely ask how well the systems they analyze would operate without algorithms. What Does the Research Say? So what’s going on here?

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The “Smart Society” of the Future Doesn’t Look Like Science Fiction

Harvard Business

Surely, given the size of the opportunity, increasing interest among governments and policy makers, and the explosion of relevant technologies, we can start to understand what smart societies are and establish standards and ideals to aim for. Its building blocks are what governments and policy makers aim to provide for their citizens.

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Why Sourcing Local Food Is So Hard for Restaurants

Harvard Business

He has written a case study about food safety testing and is the author of All Business Is Local. However, you’ve made the point that even though there are fewer intermediaries between supplier and restaurant, its operations can actually end up being more complex and fragmented, and therefore harder to control for safety.