Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Technological progress and new digital products have perennially been relied upon for improving operations. But studies now reveal that doctors spend half of their time managing EHRs and desk work, shortchanging patients and fueling burnout. But the truth is, tech can often make bureaucracy worse.

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Clarity Consultants

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

From childhood fairy tales to business case studies, stories shape our understanding of the world. In the enhanced training program, Clarity Consultants utilized advanced analytics to tailor the training content to the real operational needs of the environmental services corporation. Read the full case study here 2.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2025

An effective Project Management Office (PMO) in an organization is a must nowadays. It helps standardize project management practices, ensure alignment with organizational strategy, and provide oversight to deliver projects successfully. Enhanced risk management through predictive insights. What is a PMO? What are PMO tools?

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 11, 2024

We’ll also look at case studies of companies leading the way in sustainable supply chain management. Companies are implementing various strategies to minimize waste production, from the design phase, lean manufacturing techniques, to end-of-life management. Zuhair Imaduddin is a Senior Product Manager at Wells Fargo.

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Chad Barr

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Retail : AI-powered inventory management reducing waste and optimizing stock levels. Business Operations : Virtual assistants scheduling meetings, automating reminders, and handling repetitive tasks seamlessly. Your AI Roadmap to Success Study : Dedicate at least one hour each day to learning about AI tools and trends.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A conversation with Harvard Business School professor Bill Sahlman on creating a focused strategy for growth.

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 12, 2024

Whether you are in consulting, strategy, operations, or product management, the ability to manage meetings effectively is a crucial skill that can significantly impact the success of your endeavors. This is especially relevant in product management, where decisions often involve cross-functional collaboration.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Business operations teams play a critical role in the success and growth of both big companies and small startups. Let’s explore the role of business operations teams in greater detail for both big companies and small startups.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 7, 2017

What if we went further, redesigning our work environments (physical, virtual, and management systems) to help accelerate learning and performance improvement on the job? Routine tasks do need to be automated, but for the purpose of freeing up people to explore new approaches to create even more value.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 25, 2024

This article delves into the rising importance of ESG metrics, how companies are integrating them into their operations, provides leading examples, and highlights the evolving regulatory landscape. ESG metrics provide a framework for evaluating business performance along three dimensions.

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Melissa Agnes

AUGUST 8, 2019

Naren gets real here and provides insight and details about the incident, how him and his team managed it, and what scared him most when it came to having to communicate with his clients — even after the threat had been contained and eradicated.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 31, 2018

A recent study of VC firms found that more-diverse teams had higher financial returns than their homogenous counterparts. How did (or didn’t) managers play a role? To look into this question, I conducted a case study as part of my dissertation research involving 23 women of color at a Fortune 500 company.

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Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2023

Over five studies, job candidates consistently reported that they worried asking for higher pay from these companies would be seen as greedy or inappropriate. In reality, research has shown that extrinsic and intrinsic motivations operate jointly to predict high performance.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 9, 2017

But our research , forthcoming in the Academy of Management Journal , suggests a third option: Targets of abuse can flip the script, shifting the balance of power in their favor when bosses make life miserable. Subordinates can change the power dynamics by engaging in two types of power-balancing operations.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Several studies (including this one ) have shown that doctors want to be led by other doctors; they trust physician leaders to make the right decisions about redesigning health care delivery and balancing quality and cost. aren’t taught management skills in medical school. Nicholas Blechman for hbr. Yet most doctors in the U.S.

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Training Training Management Healthcare 136

Harvard Business

APRIL 25, 2018

” Your interpersonal relationships with insecure employees also tend to be more complicated, says Mary Shapiro, a professor at Simmons College School of Management and the author of HBR Guide to Leading Teams. Ultimately, though, the goal is for your employee to operate more autonomously, says Burris. Clarify expectations.

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Management How To Case Study Case Studies 136

Tom Spencer

JULY 28, 2023

By harnessing the potential of AI, companies can optimize the integration and management of clean technologies , leading to increased efficiency, cost savings, and environmental sustainability. Consulting firms play a crucial role in guiding businesses through the integration of AI-powered renewables into their operations.

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Consulting Matters

JUNE 30, 2020

I love actually impacting the customer's operations and providing a new prospective or process that changes the way they do business forever. Knowing that the base of what I want to offer may change throughout the course of my education and development, I'd like to have a solid grounding of my business operations. We got you covered.

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Steve Shu Consulting

MAY 20, 2018

As an example, for one of my first clients as an independent consultant, I got in the door through the referral of an IT systems consultant (met at a local lunch talk) who needed to help their client do an operational analysis. gave them some management one-pagers I wrote on their topic). They then invited me to propose to them.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

But social media managers face innumerable possibilities for posting content. For example, a social media manager tasked with posting 10 stories in a day and with a budget to promote four of those stories can schedule the sequence of social media posts in over 7 trillion ways. Putting an Ad Hoc Strategy to the Test.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Over the past decade, the integration of technology into healthcare has transformed how we diagnose, treat, and manage health conditions. For instance, wearable glucose monitors for diabetic patients provide continuous glucose readings, allowing for better management of blood sugar levels.

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Harvard Business

JULY 24, 2017

Change management can be a test for any organization. Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. Change management certainly tested us. We have hired more than 5,000 new employees since beginning the effort in late 2013.) What did we do?

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Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2023

While women comprise only 10% of workers at other large mines globally, South Flank, an iron ore mine in Western Australia operated by BHP, has created a workforce where 40% of the 869 frontline employees are women, and four out of six senior managers are women.

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Management Consulted

APRIL 27, 2014

A prospective management consultant without basic business understanding is like a camera tripod with 2 legs — it just won’t work out for you. Instead, we’re recommending real-life activities that will help you understand why profit is important to a business , or how to quickly study a new industry.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 15, 2024

A study of U.S. clinics illustrates the potential — and limits — of this approach.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

Sociologist Paula England has called this phenomenon an “uneven and stalled” gender revolution , and there have been dozens of studies showing how the progress in gender equality experienced during and immediately after the feminist movement of the 1970s has not been sustained through the 1990s and 2000s. And if so, how?

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Epicflow

JANUARY 12, 2024

Check out our selection of events for project/resource managers, business leaders, and industry professionals, which will provide you with valuable insights into recent trends and challenges, networking opportunities, and contribute to your professional development.

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Industry Automotive Pharmaceuticals Management 130

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2018

” Editor's Note This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. The team wasn’t perfect, but it was still operating at a pretty high level. One read: “I’ve never worked with a bigger control freak in my life.”

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Tom Spencer

MARCH 28, 2025

And its transforming how businesses operate. LLMs as Infinite Puzzle Solvers Imagine a puzzle master who has studied millions of jigsaw puzzles. From summarizing lengthy documents to drafting emails and generating reports, LLMs can reduce operating costs by streamlining workflows and reducing manual effort.

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Productivity McKinsey Data Training 88

Management Consulted

AUGUST 1, 2013

Since that time, it has become the fastest growing management consulting firm today. After building a successful model in financial services, Oliver Wyman expanded to offer pure strategy consulting services to non-financial services groups and now has 2 internal divisions that operate relatively independently. Mercer buys Oliver Wyman.

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Oliver Wyman Interviews Mercer NERA Economic Consulting 201

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

A series of studies and field experiments have shown that consumers value a product more highly when it’s part of a take-back program, show a greater willingness to pay, and don’t require any additional purchase incentives.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

Studies show that it’s also counterproductive resulting in lower profit margins, return on equity , and employee morale ; costly delays as players haggle over the size of the kickback; and poverty and poor governance in the markets where they’re paid. “That’s enlightened management.” MirageC/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 4, 2018

Self-awareness seems to have become the latest management buzzword — and for good reason. Four years ago, my team of researchers and I embarked on a large-scale scientific study of self-awareness. Stefanie Johnson for her contributions to our study as well. Archi Trujillo/Getty Images.

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 21, 2022

A centralised mixer is administered by a single entity, who is responsible for dealing with customers and managing financial operations. Image: Unsplash The post Crypto Regulation: A Case Study on Crypto Mixers first appeared on Tom Spencer.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 23, 2018

Power, as my colleague Ena Inesi has studied, can cause leaders to become overly obsessed with outcomes and control, and, therefore, treat their employees as means to an end. Take for example a UK food delivery service that I’ve studied. Drivers’ dislike of managers was high, and trust was low. The new approach?

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Leadership PricewaterhouseCoopers Banking Examples 183

Management Consulted

JANUARY 1, 2017

Check out our breakdowns on Profitability , Market Sizing , and Market Study to become a complete expert on any kind of framework you’ll need in your case interview. They often plan to operate it for a period of time; many choose to integrate the target with their current operations. Missed out on Parts 1-3? Have no fear!

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Management Consulted

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Recognizing client’s needs for help managing IT operations and resources, IBM Vice President Robert M. Eastman Kodak Company and IBM completed an agreement hiring IBM to design, build and manage a new state-of-the-art data center for Kodak in Rochester, NY under the brand name Integrated Systems Solutions (ISSC).

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