Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

Emerging digital firms compete with knowledge, strategy, and expert human capital, attacking even the largest established firms. They operate as lean organizations, using cloud and internet-based infrastructure, and launch and distribute products more quickly than did firms that competed with factories, warehouses, inventories, and suppliers.

IPO 14

IPO Company First-mover Advantage Intangible Assets 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2014

When such simple randomization is not feasible due to logistics, ethics, cost, or sample size, more sophisticated analytical techniques can be employed. Change management Human resources Operations' Any differences in outcomes between the two groups can then be attributed to the change.

Flextime 14

Flextime Call Center Human Resources CRM 14

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

While aggregated data is often challenging to find, the recent Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) found 126 million women starting or running businesses, and 98 million operating established (over three and a half years) businesses. That''s 72 million jobs just from this small sample. And in the U.S., more than half of the 9.72

Globalization 15

Globalization Entrepreneur Banking Supply Chain 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2013

Trade secrets, confidential business plans, and operational security depend on it. In this latest report, based on a larger-than-ever sample, 29% of breaches involved social tactics like getting employees to click on fake emails (phishing). Protecting a company''s critical information is a value proposition.

Company 9

Company Chief Operating Officer Chief Technology Officer Chief Information Officer 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2018

We found that any type of leadership change will result in short-term adverse impacts on a firm’s operational efficiency, but outsider CEOs experienced a clear advantage in productivity gains. hospitals, which gave us a useful sample size to work with. Finally, we looked for a large enough set of organizations. Enter the U.S.

CEO 8

CEO Competitive Advantage Products Productivity 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

To address this issue, in our teaching in executive programs in Ireland, we ask participants — executives that come from a wide range of companies and government agencies, and departments such as customer service, product development, and human resources — to develop such evidence using the Friday Afternoon Measurement (FAM) method.

Quality 8

Quality Company Sample Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. “Ahmed has promised samples for the new line on the Clarkson account, but his order exceeds the limits accounting set, so we need Damon’s signoff, and he won’t give it.”

Case Study 15

Case Study Team CFO Merchandising 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

To address this issue, in our teaching in executive programs in Ireland, we ask participants — executives that come from a wide range of companies and government agencies, and departments such as customer service, product development, and human resources — to develop such evidence using the Friday Afternoon Measurement (FAM) method.

Quality 8

Quality Company Sample Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 12, 2018

In our research, recently published in the journal Human Resource Management, we found that performance evaluation schemes based on peer comparison can encourage unethical behavior. According to the scenario, Sam was one of the key traders for his bank’s recently launched operations in Singapore. Participants averaged 3.39

Ethics 15

Ethics Comparison Participative Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2017

To begin, you’ll need to understand what hiring prejudices are and how they operate. ” Give a work sample test. “ Work sample tests that mimic the kinds of tasks the candidate will be doing in the job,” are the best “indicators of future job performance,” according to Bohnet.

Process 8

Process Diversity Sample Software 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Executives have a choice in how they run their operations. In my research, I’ve found that retailers using an employee-centered operations strategy, which I call the good jobs strategy , have two strategic advantages. They can run them in a way that uses people as interchangeable parts. Both ways can be profitable.

Retail 8

Retail Operations Depreciation Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Young firms face many existential threats related to managing internal financial and human resources and external relationships with customers, suppliers, investors and competitors. The survey methods stratified firms by industry, age, and size so that our sample reflects the characteristics of businesses in the region.

Insurance 8

Insurance Risk Management Finance Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 30, 2017

In aggregate, such dynamics would operate in a similar manner as unions, systematically raising the wages for low and middle earners relative to high-earners, such that the wage gaps between them are narrowed, thereby lowering wage inequality. There was also variation in whether these capital investments led to workforce reductions.

Marketing 8

Marketing Short-term Incentives Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 11, 2017

It takes time to learn how to operate efficiently in a new clinical delivery system, and higher costs of care and longer lengths of stay for locum tenens’ patients could reflect this learning curve.

Quality 8

Quality Survey Short-term Efficiency 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 10, 2017

We currently operate in the era of ‘programmatic computing’, where data analysis involves heuristically searching for patterns in limited data sets, then performing operations on the result. A retail cognitive assistant is a sample Cognitive/AI application.

Positioning 150

Positioning Company Engineering Incubator 150

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2013

One created 3,000 pretend candidates and sent their resumes to a random sample of job openings. Their skills are rusty" — one doesn''t forget how to do a job in six months, and all new hires require some time to learn how your operation works. Hiring Human resources Recession'

Long-term 12

Long-term Human Resources Sharpe Sample 12