Harvard Business

DECEMBER 1, 2016

One large media organization faces large incumbent players and operates in a market that is growing quickly. Rather than using traditional top-down management practices, the company organized itself into small business units, each of which operates in a local geography. We call this operating structure the “network of teams.”

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

While technology can certainly improve operational performance, the idea that it can replace a sound strategy is a dangerous delusion. Tronc investor Patrick Soon-Shiong also asserts that the technology will allow the company to make thousands of videos a day. Managing for Metrics Rather than Mission. The Downside of Data.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

While initially designed to improve the responsiveness of software development teams, more recently agile has become the default team-based operational model for companies big and small, across industries and sectors, with the promise of a substantial and sustained spike in team productivity and efficiency. Related Video.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Related Video. See More Videos > See More Videos > Blockchain’s properties — transparency, immutability, and security — make it reliable and trustworthy for applications such as supply chain management, smart contracts, financial reporting, the Internet of Things, the management of private (e.g.,

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 19, 2016

This includes introducing community policing; training officers in de-escalation skills and the use of non-lethal tactics; increasing the diversity of departments; improving data collection and public transparency; and enhancing the screening of police recruits. So why have most police departments failed to embrace these reforms?

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2016

Since then, WeChat has been constantly launching new services, from mobile payments to booking doctor appointments, from police reporting to taxi hailing, from video conferencing to mobile banking services. Recruit Holdings from Japan is a publishing and classified advertisement company, founded in 1963.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

We found the Architects sustainably transformed a school by challenging how it operated, engaging its community, and improving its teaching. Typically, a half of this change came from recruiting new staff to resource growth, a quarter from reducing the number of supply teachers and a quarter from managing out poor performers.

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