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on social media 25 Jun 2024 Research & Ideas Rapport: The Hidden Advantage That Women Managers Bring to Teams by Kara Baskin 11 Jun 2024 In Practice The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024 by Avery Forman 25 Jun 2024 Research & Ideas How View Details

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Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

health care agenda. Health care invests billions of dollars in quality measurement programs and complex cost accounting systems yet these systems currently fail to collect outcomes that matter to patients and the costs to acheive them. Outcome Measurement Standardized... View Details

20 Nov 2012
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Pay Harmony: Peer Comparison and Executive Compensation

Keywords: by Claudine Gartenberg & Julie Wulf

04 Jun 2024
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Navigating Consumer Data Privacy in an AI World

for a lot of the heavy lifting—like managing and modeling data. If you're not sure you have the in-house capacity, outsourcing is a smart move. There are just a handful of companies out there that really specialize in this, and they can be a huge help. Layne: Why is... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology

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encountered, it recalibrated, iteratively creating continuity and restoring order. Daini survived the crisis without an explosion or a meltdown. October 2014 Article The Transparency Trap By: Ethan Bernstein To get people to be more... View Details

12 Apr 2022
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Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches

Their research suggests that transparency on dating sites—as simple as allowing users to see the identity and photos of those who “swiped right” to show their interest—improves engagement for both men and women. Since Match.com launched... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

07 Jul 2008
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Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

officer Ken Lay made him president of Enron's new trading operations. In 2001, Skilling was named CEO. Before 1997, Enron was an innovative and profitable player in the newly deregulated natural gas industry. Skilling's big idea was to create fluid and View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

16 Oct 2023
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Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta

Johnson. They do this work hand-in-glove,” Hill says. The strategy must be pursued with transparency and rigor companywide. “The leadership needs to be exposed to people from different [workforce] groups,” Hill says, “because one of the... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Air Transportation

28 Nov 2023
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Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?

leaders have no political competition, or open autocracies like that of Russia, Turkey, and Malaysia, which hold elections but may lack safeguards and transparency that keep them fair. The book investigates the relationship between... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Mar 2021
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COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

21 Oct 2022
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People Trust Business, But Expect CEOs to Drive Social Change

Public trust in business remains relatively unshaken amid economic turbulence and a lingering pandemic, even as faith in the media and government falters, but leaders could do more to address social issues, a new global opinion survey shows. However, not everyone... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

03 Jul 2018
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positions. To enable such assessments, firms must become as transparent about their corporate political responsibility (CPR) as their corporate social responsibility (CSR). For their part, rating systems must demand such information from... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

27 Jun 2016
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These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance

employees may balk at changes. For example, they may resist the introduction of new processes fearing that increased productivity will lead to fewer jobs, causing layoffs. Management changes can be equally threatening to bosses, Sadun points out, since more reliance on... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

08 Oct 2020
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Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

negatively affected, people become fearful, resentful, and disengaged. On the organizational level, this drive is usually satisfied through performance management and resource allocation systems. Best practices: Processes must be View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

07 Mar 2023
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Deconstructing LEGO’s Decarbonization

transparency in their practices and reporting, they can help exemplify environmental and economic sustainability roadmaps for public shareholders, stakeholders, and regulatory bodies. First movers: Being an early leader in the... View Details

November, 2016
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Fixing Discrimination in Online Marketplaces

By: Ray Fisman and Michael Luca

Online marketplaces such as eBay, Uber, and Airbnb have the potential to reduce racial, gender, and other forms of bias that affect the off-line world. And in the early days of Internet commerce, the relative anonymity of transactions did make it harder for... View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Race; Gender

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17 Jan 2018
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If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer

employees’ lives better in some way.” Related Reading: Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences? Rising CEO Pay: What Directors... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2023
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Drop Everything, Read This

continues, the democratic-capitalist system will not survive the twenty- rst century. Authoritarianism beckons as the logical amalgamation of economic and political systems seeking to operate with neither transparency nor accountability.” View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

05 Jul 2012
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Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?

organization's management team can do is be transparent (and) persistently continue open conversation and not expect to be perfect." Karl Hunrick suggested that we need to employ more managers willing to take risk, because... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Creating an Inclusive Recruiting Process for Candidates with Diverse Abilities - Recruiting

candidates into the recruiting process and foster their success while establishing a more equitable and effective process for all. Communicate Transparent Processes A common theme among candidates of diverse abilities is the importance of... View Details

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