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

JULY 25, 2017

It may seem that the employers of such low-wage workers — who focus mainly on keeping costs down in order to survive in a relentlessly competitive industry — would have no incentive to provide such training or resources for personal development. India’s biggest garment export firm.

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MARCH 21, 2022

This enables employees to choose their own workhours, cutting out unnecessary time that has no effect on a day-to-day work schedule or conflicts with personal responsibilities. It also deployed a Virtual First Toolkit , which shared tips for collaboration, time management, inclusive language and team unity skills.

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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. How it will impact business, industry, and society. Before the industrial revolution, most people earned their living through physical labor. This creates a dilemma for leaders. Insight Center. The Age of AI.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2018

When there was no upper limit to the hours that organizations could demand of factory workers, and the industrial revolution saw children as young as six-years-old working the coal mines, American labor unions fought hard to instill a 40-hour work week, eventually ratifying it as part of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

AF447 precipitated the aviation industry’s growing concern about such “loss of control” incidents, and whether they’re linked to greater automation in the cockpit. Commercial aircraft fly on autopilot for much of the time. Automation on the Flight Deck.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Just imagine the operational demand if primary care providers also had to actively monitor their patients’ health data between office visits. Empowering customers with easy-to-use tools transformed the tax reporting and travel industries. Less Time, Better Care.

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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. Sales in stores with more stable scheduling increased by 7%, an impressive number in an industry in which companies work hard to achieve increases of 1–2%. The results were striking.

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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

It was just the industry and firm norm. It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. But so did my peers, whether or not they had children, partners, or aging parents.

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