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Socially Responsible Business Can Only Succeed If It Becomes a Movement

Harvard Business

Companies must benefit all of their stakeholders, including shareholders, employees, customers, and the communities in which they operate.” Of course, the ideas that corporations must earn their “license to operate” and serve stakeholders that go far beyond shareholders are not new. ”

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Impact of Data Analytics in Consulting

Tom Spencer

“Data scientists, fast computers, and advanced software are replacing traditional decision-making processes and disrupting tried-and trusted traditional consulting methodologies, with Big Data being one of the main forces of disruption” ( Tras, 2015 ). Globally, investment by consulting firms into analytics increased to $43 billion in 2017.

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Fostering Employee Innovation at a 150-Year-Old Company

Harvard Business

We then offered people the opportunity to learn new innovation methodologies and apply them to real business challenges. For example, in 2017 we created the CATALYST fund, a combination of professional support (using Lean Startup principles) and money to explore larger business opportunities across the company. Extending the network.

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When Top-Down Change Isn’t Working, Hand the Keys to Frontline Staff

BCG

Article Thursday, June 08, 2017 The World Bank turned to agile methodologies, implemented from the bottom up, to improve operational efficiency and employee satisfaction. Operations head Kyle Peters describes the challenges and successes.

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Recruiters You Should Meet to Staff for Success

Harmonious Workplaces

Retained search firms and recruiters play a crucial role in attracting and retaining human capital in organizations across cultures (Allen & Vardaman, 2017). However, I have found that the best results came from working with highly motivated, strongly competent, and extremely ethical recruiters who own and operate small businesses.

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3 Principles Disney Uses to Enhance Customer Experience - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM DISNEY INSTITUTE

Harvard Business

In fact, the Conference Bard CEO Challenge 2017 survey shows that CEOs clearly understand the need to be more customer-centric: “Today, companies compete as much on customer experience as they do on product and price.” How Disney Empowers Its Employees to Deliver Exceptional Customer Service.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. In June 2017 the board “retired” Immelt and promoted John Flannery to CEO. Then it wasn’t.