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- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
could fit in two 40-foot intermodal shipping containers. The UPower reactor was designed to serve the need for "off-grid" electric power. These off-grid customers were in remote locations such as mining operations, military...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
city of Dallas. This last spring, 1,000 students in Dallas graduated with a high school diploma and an associate’s degree. The employer hiring the largest number of students in Texas and in Dallas is Thomson Reuters. Thomson Reuters had 28 students from one school who...
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by Kristen Senz
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
A: In business, preparation means thinking something through and establishing a plan. The execution phase is then managing to the plan. That's not remotely how the quartet prepared. Early in their career together they, especially Paul,...
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- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
startup in the face of fierce competition. From 2011 through 2016, the business evolved from a hobby to a startup with $22 million in revenue and 45 employees, all of whom worked remotely from home. Customer acquisition was becoming more...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
chicks to these remote villagers and did so in a way that enabled everyone to profit in concrete financial terms, from Keggfarms itself to the rural villagers. Almost a million households are today affected by Keggfarms, and the numbers...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
case:http://hbr.org/search/612076-PDF-ENG Microsoft IT India Willy Shih, Margaret Pierson, Alexander Down, Will Jurist, Diego Medicina, and Helen WangHarvard Business School Case 612-078 Raj Biyani faced tough challenges managing Microsoft IT India: leading a View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
commitments. Second, depletion of existing natural resources means firms will have to develop resources in increasingly remote locations subject to higher levels of sovereign risk such as Chad and Azerbaijan. And finally, the combination...
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- 18 May 2021
- Book
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
didn’t know you needed to). This can be especially important when you are working remotely and can’t see your manager dropping by someone’s desk – and so you can’t tell who should or should not be involved in a certain decision. KNOW...
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by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
continues. Similar to the NFL, this hiring has to take place virtually. And the shortcomings of virtual hiring in the business world are not dissimilar—technology fails, the impersonal nature of remote interactions, and the challenges...
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- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
and find that employees hired from low employment districts outperform their non-remote counterparts in standardized verbal and logical tests at the recruitment stage. To explain why the firm might be more likely to select high ability individuals from View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
categories. This can lead to a certain amount of head-to-head competition between the two neighboring shopping centers; but, for the most part, their overall business increases as they siphon away customers from more remote shopping...
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by David Stauffer
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
company successfully produces and positions a trash bin so that it is regarded as an "art object" (and which has been displayed as such in the Paris Louvre). Though it is a tangible product, a Vipp bin's price cannot be even View Details
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Martha Lagace