Johanna Rothman

AUGUST 12, 2021

Some managers wanted to prevent Bad Things from happening in the organization, so they added policies or procedures. However, the policies and procedures increase friction and make it harder to get the Right Things done. It's time to start removing some of those policies and procedures. Yet, the policies and procedures remain.

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Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2017

The corporate landscape has become increasingly unequal, with the most productive firms thriving and the least productive ones failing to keep up. And second, we are able to link it to firms’ productivity and several measures of labor market policies. The Most Productive Firms Are Pulling Ahead, Across Industries.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 7, 2020

What if you designed HR policies like products?

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

This narrow approach fails to recognize or reward companies for their innovative contributions to climate solutions beyond their immediate emissions, such as developing green products, influencing policy, or investing in sustainable initiatives.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

But we discovered a surprisingly simple way to increase productivity, one that was low-cost and had immediate impact: better office seating arrangements. Worker performance data broken down into three metrics: Productivity. and Europe. Monthly reports on each employee’s location and assigned cubicle over time. Effectiveness.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 11, 2024

This article explores the growing emphasis on employee well-being, initiatives companies are implementing to support it, and the benefits of prioritizing employee well-being, including increased productivity, innovation, and staff retention. Companies that invest in employee well-being tend to experience increased productivity.

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2025

A PMO has the following functions: Project governance includes establishing frameworks, methodologies, and policies to guide project execution. Support and training providing tools, templates, and training to project teams to enhance their productivity and adherence to standards. APIs to customize workflows and enhance functionality.

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Effective Managers

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

However, challenges such as maintaining team cohesion and managing productivity remotely will need to be addressed. Effective communication tools and clear policies will be crucial to ensuring the success of these flexible work models. Digital collaboration tools are also becoming indispensable in this new environment.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 25, 2018

Business transformations are typically built around new structural elements, including policies, processes, facilities, and technology. More recently, we worked with the senior team of a large consumer product company which had been severely disrupted by smaller, more agile online competitors selling their services directly to consumers.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 5, 2022

Product managers have a dynamic role within companies, sitting at the intersection between business leaders, customers, engineers, and designers. They help to organize the development process so that products meet customer needs and business goals. What is a Product? Managing the Product Lifecycle.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 16, 2023

All too often innovations — including new products, new HR policies to attract and retain talent, and new production processes —developed in one part of a business stay there. Other groups that could benefit from them don’t know they exist.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 8, 2017

On a team, these feelings, and the resulting hit to productivity, can be contagious. Some of your team members may be looking around and wondering how their colleagues are keeping it together while they’re losing sleep and unable to be productive. ” Here are practical ways to do that. Encourage self-compassion.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 14, 2019

A study found that “work from anywhere” policies increased productivity.

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Kraft Kennedy

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Why Law Firms Need IT Policies Is it okay to store your password on a post it note on your computer monitor in your personal office? Is it acceptable to use your family computer to access your firm’s work product? In o rder to appreciate why law firms need IT policies, i t’s important to first identify their purpose.

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Epicflow

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The capacity of HHI is superior to its competitors — a four-kilometer Ulsan shipyard with nine huge “Goliath Cranes,” 16,000 well-trained and experienced people in production, R&D, management, and administration, and the ability to manufacture any ship of any size with superb quality and the highest deadweight tonnage in the world.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 10, 2023

There is no lack of data and information about why organizations should offer caregiver-friendly employee policies and benefits. employees are caregivers, in order to have a productive and sustainable workforce, companies must create the infrastructure to support them. For example, the U.S.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

New research shows how foreign-owned factories tend to be more productive, higher paying, and more technologically advanced. Here’s how U.S. companies benefit.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2023

This article shows how Kenvue, a former Johnson & Johnson company invested in “real” insurance policies — capabilities and resources that make a supply chain resilient under conditions of high uncertainty. Specifically the company invested in three strategic capabilities: surge capacity, partnerships, and data and processes.

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Progressus

MARCH 31, 2025

In any organization, communication gaps, outdated documents, and disconnected tools can quickly lead to confusion and lost productivity. Whether its HR policies, onboarding materials, or company-wide announcements, teams need a reliable place to access essential resources.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Research shows a causal link between happy workers and a 13% increase in productivity. trillion in lost productivity, equal to 11% of global GDP. Being happy at work isn’t just a win for employees; it’s also a win for employers. On the flipside, unhappiness at work costs the world $7.8

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Markovitz Consulting

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Last week, I wrote about how the pandemic lockdown and work from home have made employees more productive by removing some of the bureaucratic barnacles that keep them from doing high value work. Similarly, many established companies with exhaustive employee manuals will want to go back to following pre-Covid policies.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Offering an unlimited time-off policy can be a win-win for employer and employee. Switching to an unlimited time-off policy can solve the liability issue; wiping away the average vacation liability saves companies $1,898 per employee , according to research from Project: Time Off.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

But my coauthors, Christian Dustmann, Bernd Fitzenberger, Uta Schönberg, and I show the role of policy is not the main reason. In addition, productivity increases in the sector outpaced wage increases. Our research shows the role of policy did little to support the remarkable wage restraint witnessed since the mid-1990s.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2018

Women are offered lower pay and less institutional research funding when they join a faculty, and they continue to earn considerably less than men—even among those at the same level and with comparable productivity. System-wide policies that disadvantage women. Institute family-friendly policies. What Can Be Done?

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Harvard Business

JUNE 9, 2017

Few issues are more foundational to driving improvements in human health than creating productive, progressive relationships between clinical medicine and the biopharmaceutical industry. Legitimate concerns over conflict of interest that have resulted in overly extreme preventative policies are a central cause. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 12, 2017

All economies, from Brazil and Germany to India and Saudi Arabia, stand to gain from the hefty productivity boosts that robotics and artificial intelligence will bring. Japanese manufacturing has a slightly larger concentration of work hours in production jobs (54% of hours versus the U.S.’s billion to 2.2

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Steve Shu Consulting

JULY 25, 2014

Although still early, behavioral insights and the application of behavioral economics principles have been going global in the public policy space. One the other hand, possibilities for competitive differentiation and new products seem limitless.

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Markovitz Consulting

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Last week, I wrote about how the pandemic lockdown and work from home have made employees more productive by removing some of the bureaucratic barnacles that keep them from doing high value work. Similarly, many established companies with exhaustive employee manuals will want to go back to following pre-Covid policies.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 8, 2017

Like the internet, this technology is designed to be decentralized, with “layers,” where each layer is defined by an interoperable open protocol on top of which companies, as well as individuals, can build products and services. The TCP/IP protocol was used to address and control how packets of data were routed between computers.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 20, 2017

After a close look at workplace policies across corporations, banks, law firms, and tech companies, the New York Times called grueling competition the defining feature of the upper-echelon workplace. Some of the behaviors we asked about were creative, such as “Search out new technologies, processes, techniques, and/or product ideas.”

Banking 131

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Tom Spencer

JANUARY 26, 2024

This article explores the nature of inflation, delving into its impact on different socioeconomic groups, the balance between inflation and unemployment, and the historical theories that have shaped monetary and fiscal policy decisions. The Phillips curve offered no short term solutions to the problem.

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Kraft Kennedy

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Purview Sensitivity Labels Purview Data Loss Prevention Policy SharePoint Advanced Management Restricted Content Discovery ($) Purview Sensitivity Labels Law Firms have a duty to prevent Copilot from accessing the organizations work product, but the inability to unilaterally define which documents were off limits presented a compliance challenge.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

It’s a longstanding debate that’s reemerged during Hurricanes Irma and Harvey: During a time of crisis, should merchants raise or maintain prices when demand increases for essential products such as water, gas, and bread? Instead, they advocate raising prices to bring demand in line with supply.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 27, 2018

But this was not the first time its policies were violated. Most of Google’s and Facebook’s consumer products are ostensibly “free.” ” The data-opolies’ scale can also mean higher quality products. Lower-quality products with less privacy. Nor is it likely to be the last.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 14, 2017

As I said at the time, it was a case study in poor policy and even poorer execution. When the policy change was announced, people were given until December 30, 2016, to return 500- and 1,000-rupee notes to banks, or else risk losing the value of them. Overnight, 86% of cash in circulation was voided. Four months passed.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2018

Employees reorder their working hours to create an unconventional schedule that optimizes productivity and performance. Productivity. In an economy where productivity is stagnant across the board , largely owing to a culture of overwork, flexibility is a key disruptor for improving productivity.

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2017

And when employees don’t feel trusted, workplace productivity and engagement often suffer. Employees who are less trusted by their manager exert less effort , are less productive, and are more likely to leave the organization. But many employees say they do not feel trusted by their managers. Risk-averse by design.

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