Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2012

Editor's Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Ronnie Emerson was director of clinical operations in Orlando, a position Matthew had created soon after taking the reins at Kid Spectrum. You need to nip this in the bud.".

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Case Study Insurance Hamel System 14

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Understanding the Concept of Governance Excellence Governance excellence refers to the strategic oversight conducted by a company’s board of directors that ensures ethical, sustainable, and profitable organizational operations. The primary step involves an objective assessment to determine operational efficiency and effectiveness.

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Compliance Ethics Efficiency Metrics 243

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

A 2014 IMF study illustrates that extreme inequality is self-defeating as it slows down economic growth and insights from behavioral economics show that it damages employee morale and productivity, while large executive bonuses have presented PR nightmares for the companies that award them.

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Case Study ESOP Incentives Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

Editor''s Note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. Fred, Roy, and Bill never rose as high in the company as Ricky, who is now the chief operating officer. Otherwise the business will fail. I wish I knew which side was right.

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Case Study CEO Chief Operating Officer Real Estate 10

Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Each area of the organization needs to work out the roadmap for integrating the strategy into their current operations, and aligning it with the master timeline as well as other departments’ plans. So, the moral is to document what works so you retain your gains, then look for the next area to improve and repeat the entire cycle above.

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Execution Strategy How To Learning-by-Doing 70

Skip Prichard

JULY 19, 2021

His book, Lessons from the Navy: How to Earn Trust, Lead Teams, and Achieve Organizational Excellence is loaded with advice to help all leaders aspiring to operate at the highest levels. A few months prior, I had been selected to be executive officer, or XO (Chief Operating Officer), of U.S. Naval Hospital Rota, Spain.

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Leadership Crisis Learning-by-Doing Team 134

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

It applies to service industries and manufacturing operations. Improvement can be quantified by increased productivity, reduced turnover and heightened employee morale. Paying attention to quality can realize: Lower operating costs. Read case studies of Malcolm Baldridge Award winners. Customer retention.

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Quality Metrics Strategic Planning TQM 50

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2018

. “To prosper over time,” he argued, “companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” Through a well-structured operating process, partners expand and align their efforts and draw on comparative strengths.

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Company Decentralization Long-term Operations 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

We chose Brazil’s beef industry as the location of our case study , both for the size and complexity of the industry and for its impact on the planet. For slaughterhouses and retailers (Brazilian operations), we also projected positive benefits: $20 million to $120 million (0.01% to 0.1% of revenues).

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Supply Chain Net Present Value Retail Cost of Capital 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Because of this, it would assign the right task to every person and reward unselfish team behaviors, creating a culture of trust and keeping morale high. Undoubtedly, it would operate according to data rather than intuition and make only evidence-based recommendations.

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Management Emotional Intelligence Maturity Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2018

Is it hurting morale? Ultimately, though, the goal is for your employee to operate more autonomously, says Burris. Case Study #1: Help your employee feel comfortable and emphasize the importance of learning. Case Study #2: Partner your employee with a colleague and praise her on what she does well.

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Management How To McCombs Project 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

” Which helps to explain why Ellis’s book is a such a terrific case study in leadership. Not all decisions will involve the profound moral dilemmas faced by Adams and his peers. That was a well-intentioned behavior that might well have put the entire operation in jeopardy, the de-brief emphasized.

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Due Diligence Resistance Storytelling Case Study 19

Harvard Business Review

MAY 18, 2016

In a society “where work is considered morally worthy,” being a workaholic might not seem like a serious problem, says Mary Blair-Loy , a sociologist and the founding director of the Center for Research on Gender in the Professions at the University of California, San Diego. What the Experts Say.

How To 15

How To Learning-by-Doing Case Study Energy 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 3, 2014

” Which helps to explain why Ellis’s book is a such a terrific case study in leadership. Not all decisions will involve the profound moral dilemmas faced by Adams and his peers. That was a well-intentioned behavior that might well have put the entire operation in jeopardy, the de-brief emphasized.

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Due Diligence Resistance Storytelling Case Study 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2013

In 2007, I wrote a case study for Harvard Business Review , “ Boss, I Think Someone Stole our Customer Data.” Clearly shared values among leaders in the business can help prevent or resolve conflicts as operational options and objectives are weighed. If there is a short-term financial hit, take it and move forward.

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Crisis How To Crisis Management Media 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2016

Research shows that predictable time off improves productivity and morale. Case Study #1: Create open lines of communication and respect your team’s downtime. Then, one day, in an operations meeting, he had an epiphany. ” Case Study #2: Communicate expectations and track progress.

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Products Productivity How To Micromanagement 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

If your attitude is impeding your relationships, your talent, or your health, it might be time to consider making some changes…If you have any great stories about how attitudes impact leadership and morale please share them in the comments section below. The beautiful thing about your story is it makes for a wonderful case study.

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Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 420

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 21, 2015

“Micromanaging dents your team’s morale by establishing a tone of mistrust—and it limits your team’s capacity to grow,” she says. ” Another way to ease out of micromanaging is to discretely seek feedback from other coworkers about how your team is operating, says Dillon. ” Build t rust.

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Micromanagement Team How To Project 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

It wasnt perfect; yes, foreign currency transactions were problematic, yes, moral hazard was an issue, and perhaps my reading, having not been there myself, is frankly erroneous. Its not a utopian picture — just a very different one from mega-banking, with a very different feel, purpose, and structure.

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Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 18

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2015

“Ideally you should operate at some level of overcapacity so that when you lose an employee, you don’t need to panic,” she says. Case Study #1: Be creative and accommodating about knowledge transfer. Case Study #2: Preserve professional relationships — even long after the resignation.

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Case Study Learning-by-Doing Company Team 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Editor’s note: This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. But after their patents expired and the competition became heated, the idea of merging them made sense: Consolidating their sales forces and operations would reduce costs.

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Case Study Price Chemicals Strategy 14

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

This isn't a new challenge, but it's more urgent than ever, not just as an effort to escape reform and regulation from the outside, but to restore the public trust, to repair the moral fabric of the system, and to unleash the innovation required to tackle the world's most pressing and important challenges.

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Short-term Long-term Ethics Incentives 17

Strategy Driven

MARCH 11, 2011

The company cried ‘case study’ from the very beginning, when it segued from the former Houston Natural Gas moniker. These observations are intended to contextualize the Enron case studies in broader terms than were reported in the news media: Conditions Which Allowed It to Occur. Morale is low or uneven.

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Strategic Planning Committee Golden Handcuff Media 57

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2018

Email and chat facilitate similar dysfunction; inbox overload demonstrably hurts managerial performance and morale. Churn management makes an excellent case study: At one telecom giant, an analytics team explored using machine learning techniques to identify the customers most likely to leave and switch to another service provider.

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Software Learning-by-Doing Technology Compliance 8