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March 2011
Case

Seven-Eleven Japan: The Tanpin Kanri Retail Practice

By: Hirotaka Takeuchi and Carin-Isabel Knoop

This case focuses on Tanpin Kanri, which uses both store-level human knowledge and product information sharing. View Details

Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Employees; Practice; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Competitive Strategy; Retail Industry; Japan

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January 2000 (Revised September 2002)
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Hitting the Wall: Nike and International Labor Practices

By: Debora L. Spar and Jennifer Burns

In the mid-1990s Nike, one of the world's most successful footwear companies, is hit by a spate of alarmingly bad publicity. After years of high-profile media attention as the company that can "just do it," Nike is suddenly being portrayed as a firm that relies on... View Details

Keywords: Wages; Developing Countries and Economies

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November 1989
Case

IBM Corp.: The Full Employment Practice (Condensed)

By: D. Quinn Mills and G. Bruce Friesen

Keywords: Employment; Management Practices and Processes; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry

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17 Apr 2008
Working Paper Summaries

Diffusing Management Practices within the Firm: The Role of Information Provision

Keywords: by Michael J. Lenox & Michael W. Toffel; Technology

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Book

Marketing Management: Readings from Theory to Practice

By: B. P. Shapiro, R. J. Dolan and J. A. Quelch

Keywords: Marketing; Management; Theory; Practice

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22 Oct 2011
Conference Presentation

Principles and Practices of Long-Term Family Success

By: John A. Davis

Keywords: Family and Family Relationships; Success

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Article

Mentoring: Application for the Practice of Radiology

By: L. L. Barr, K. Shaffer, K. L. McGinn and B. J. Hillman

Keywords: Health; Training

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February 1989
Supplement

IBM Corp.: The Full Employment Practice (B1)

By: D. Quinn Mills

Keywords: Employment; Information Technology Industry

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January 1989
Case

IBM Corp.: The Full Employment Practice (A)

By: D. Quinn Mills

Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Human Resources; Management; Computer Industry

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August 1999
Teaching Note

Egon Zehnder International: Implementing Practice Groups TN

By: Michael Y. Yoshino, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis

Teaching Note for (9-398-052). View Details

Keywords: Consulting Industry; Service Industry

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Pharmaceutical Marketing Practices in the Third World

By: N. Craig Smith and John A. Quelch

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January 1989
Supplement

IBM Corp.: The Full Employment Practice (B)

By: D. Quinn Mills and G. Bruce Friesen

Keywords: Employment; Computer Industry; Manufacturing Industry

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March 1999
Article

Practices for Managing Information Flows Within Organizations

By: Joel Demski, Tracy Lewis, Dennis Yao and Huseyin Yildirim

Firm organization determines how coworkers communicate and how information flows within the firm. Banking, accounting, consulting, and legal firms process proprietary information which their clients wish to protect. The firm's ability to safeguard and manage... View Details

Keywords: Information Management; Management Practices and Processes; Safety; Governance Controls; Customer Focus and Relationships

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April 1970
Background Note

Strategic Scanning: Some Practical Considerations for Top Management

By: Francis Aguilar

Keywords: Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques

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2020
Working Paper

Are ISS Recommendations Informative? Evidence from Assessments of Compensation Practices

By: Ana Albuquerque, Mary Ellen Carter and Susanna Gallani

Using detailed information from the largest proxy advisor in the U.S., Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), we examine whether proxy advisors’ assessments of firms’ compensation practices are able to identify poor compensation practices as measured by subsequent... View Details

Keywords: Proxy Advisors; CEO Compensation; Say-on-Pay; Institutional Shareholder Voting; Executive Compensation; Performance

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April–June 2018
Article

Establishing Teams: How Does It Change Practice Configuration, Size, and Composition?

By: Alyna Chien, Michael Anne Kyle, Antoinette S. Peters, Shalini Tendulkar, Molly Ryan, Karen Hacker and Sara J. Singer

Little is known about how practices reorganize when transitioning from traditional practice organization to team-based care. We compared practice-level (1) configuration as well as practice- and team-level (2) size and (3) composition, before and after establishing... View Details

Keywords: Academic Medicine; Primary Care; Team-based Care; Health Care and Treatment; Groups and Teams; Organizational Change and Adaptation

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