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Textile Corp. of America

Describes a young man's first job with a large corporation, where he is given a great deal of responsibility but little authority or supervision. The action takes place in the 1960s. View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Manufacturing Industry; United States

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12 Apr 2013
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Study Shows CEO and Worker Pay Gap Is Widening

06 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

procedural fairness, and the like are applicable to leaders of any group or organizational unit. In many ways, the ideas regarding how to build commitment and shared understanding are even more important for leaders at lower levels, who have far less power and formal... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Jul 2021
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FT Business Books: July Edition

15 May 2014
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Taking Business Back from Wall Street

09 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting

In the severe economic, social, and scientific turbulence churning at the dawn of the twentieth century, people were eager for any semblance of stability and predictability. From this need for certainty emerged a group of entrepreneurs who promised to apply scientific... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 Oct 2016
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Is Samsung Innovating Too Much, Too Fast?

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2019 G&WS: Soraya Chemaly Presents "Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger"

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Reimagining the Balanced Scorecard for the ESG Era

By: Robert S. Kaplan and David McMillan

Companies are increasingly aware that their customers and society in general expect businesses to adopt and work towards social and environmental objectives as well as the traditional financial ones. This involves not only re-evaluating firms’ models but re-imagining... View Details

Keywords: ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Business Ecosystems; Balanced Scorecard; Adaptation; Business Model; Business and Stakeholder Relations

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26 Mar 2021
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Planning for a Hybrid Workforce

Ananth Raman

Ananth Raman is a professor in the Technology and Operations Management area where he has taught courses on various aspects of Operational Excellence—supply chain management, technology and operations management, and service operations—to MBA students... View Details

Keywords: apparel; retailing; software

Iavor I. Bojinov

Iavor Bojinov is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration and the Richard Hodgson Fellow at Harvard Business School. He is the co-PI of the AI and Data Science Operations Lab and a faculty affiliate in the Department of Statistics at Harvard University and... View Details

07 May 2013
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Find Success Your Own Way

27 Sep 2021
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Uncovering the Secret to Clean Data

11 Jan 2011
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The Best Way to Play Office Politics

07 Dec 2021
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Remote-Work Friday Will Become the New Casual Friday

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

Mike Babcock, as head coach? Or was it sub-coaches and player-leaders who made the judgment calls at critical moments? The answer, of course, is all of the above. Even at the top, leaders often come in pairs, trios, and quartets, operating as a unit in spirit even if... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

How Leaders Kill Meaning at Work

In this article, authors Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer seek to help C-suite managers understand the traps that can impair the productivity of their workforce. By identifying the issues that regularly challenge the efficiency and creativity of employees, the... View Details

30 Sep 2019
Book

Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership

Excerpt by Laura Morgan Roberts, Anthony J. Mayo, and Serenity Lee Blacks have been integral to the economic foundation of the United States since its inception, yet that foundation was forged on an institutionalized inequality, which continues to have debilitating... View Details

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