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Research: A Strong Privacy Policy Can Save Your Company Millions

Harvard Business

Studying hundreds of data breaches, our research has found that they create significant ripples that affect other companies in the industry. Why Study Privacy Policies? When a firm had transparent privacy practices, customers in our studies felt they had the knowledge to make an informed decision about sharing their personal data.

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Startups Are More Vulnerable to Fraud. Here’s Why.

Harvard Business

We recruited 250 experienced purchasing and sales managers and allocated them between the experiments. We divided each study’s sample into three sub-groups: We informed the first group that the firm they were negotiating with (that is, their counterpart’s employer) was a startup.

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A Study of Hospitals Found That Outsider CEOs Make Their Organizations More Productive in the Long Run

Harvard Business

Prior studies have two common methodological limitations. When both groups were compared with hospitals that hadn’t changed CEOs, however, both groups fell behind over the five-year period we studied. But if a new CEO must be found, then recruiters may want to look outside rather than in.

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How to Quantify Sustainability’s Impact on Your Bottom Line

Harvard Business

We chose Brazil’s beef industry as the location of our case study , both for the size and complexity of the industry and for its impact on the planet. Nonetheless, the case study demonstrates that measuring the value of sustainable business can be done, and that sustainable business itself can be cost-effective.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

I was immediately captivated by the dynamic and fascinating world of consulting, and began taking interest in studying cases. I studied everything I could about wine and became very knowledgeable in that field in a relatively short time. ” “My friend told me about this industry during my bachelor studies.

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The Promise and Challenge of Big Data for Pharma

Harvard Business

elderly, frail, or immobile patients, as well as people with rare indications and diseases not yet studied in clinical trials). One of the biggest is how to make the transition from legacy technology and analytical competence to more-powerful and sophisticated analytical tools and analysis methodologies.

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Advice on Running a Government Agency Like a Startup, from Someone Who’s Tried It

Harvard Business

Godbout: I have yet to see the case study of massive change management of innovation where a group of people came in and, like a whirlwind, changed everyone’s thoughts and executed the whole thing themselves. So that is not a methodology to build buildings. How did you recruit techies to take these jobs?