Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

How to decide where remote and hybrid work policies fit into your organization’s vision.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Six strategies for managers.

Policies 172

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

What is more, we found that a good corporate privacy policy can shield firms from the financial harm posed by a data breach — by offering customers transparency and control over their personal information — while a flawed policy can exacerbate the problems caused by a breach. Why Study Privacy Policies?

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Effective Managers

FEBRUARY 22, 2025

Developing organizational policies that both respect cultural differences and promote a unified approach to accountability is crucial. Such policies should aim to create an environment where all employees, regardless of their cultural background, feel valued and understood.

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Culture Guidelines Policies Leadership 146

Effective Managers

JANUARY 15, 2025

Strategies for Defining Roles and Accountabilities To effectively implement clear roles and accountabilities within an organization, several strategies can be employed: Role Clarity Workshops : Conduct workshops that involve all team members in discussions about role expectations and accountabilities.

Culture 130

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Tom Spencer

APRIL 25, 2025

Imagine spending months crafting a detailed, data-driven strategy , only to watch it gather dust on a shelf. In these cases, strategies become what I call ‘strategically useless’ brilliant in theory but ineffective in practice. Three Reasons Why Strategies Become Useless 1. For example, J.C.

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Clarity Consultants

APRIL 16, 2025

Compliance Risks: Without structured training, ensuring new employees grasp essential regulatory and company-specific policies is challenging. Compliance Training and Business Growth For companies that require compliance training, custom eLearning solutions ensure that new hires understand policies, regulations, and ethical standards.

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Harvard Business

JULY 29, 2024

it’s normal for policy uncertainty to increase before a major election, then decrease once the results are in. Election years are the time to pursue projects that entail minimal commitments and expenditures but will produce tremendous first-mover advantage and large payoffs if post-election policy turns out to be favorable. In the U.S.,

Company 232

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Harvard Business

JUNE 25, 2018

Nonetheless, most organizations pay far more attention to strategy and execution than they do to what their people are feeling and thinking when they’re asked to embrace a transformation. Resistance, especially when it is passive, invisible, and unconscious, can derail even the best strategy. “What else is true?”

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2023

These strategies are legally safe because they benefit everyone, but it’s the people at the margins who stand to benefit most, precisely because they feel most excluded from workplaces without such initiatives.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2018

Here are some of the strategies that we’ve used, which are hopefully helpful for your business whether it’s an early-stage startup with limited funding or a more mature organization that has a restricted budget. At our company, Hatch Apps , we’ve learned to get creative. Promote balance and flexibility.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 18, 2018

Such new thinking will generate a whole new human resource development agenda, one quite probably emphasizing those innate human capacities that can provide a renewed strategy for success that is both technological and human. As Wise, the roboticist, emphasized, the technology itself is just a tool, one that leaders can use how they see fit.

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Successful Independent Consulting

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Make it a policy. I also recommend making it your policy. Literally create a document titled “Rate Policy” and write down what rates you charge for what services. Your policy should be short, maybe half a page. No one is likely to see the policy except you, but having it will enable you to say to clients, “It’s my policy.”

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Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2021

Three strategies for multinational companies.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 5, 2023

It’s both a culture and policy question.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2023

It promises to shift liability onto private firms and create incentives to defend against critical vulnerabilities.

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Harvard Business

MAY 28, 2021

Nine strategies for business leaders.

Policies 91

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The world is shifting from a global trade order to a devolved one in which bilateral agreements, multiple spheres of influence, and self-interested government policies are likely to loom large.

Policies 251

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Effective Managers

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Effective communication tools and clear policies will be crucial to ensuring the success of these flexible work models. Embracing flexibility, fostering continuous learning, and prioritizing employee well-being will be key strategies for success in this new era of work.

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Harvard Business

JULY 27, 2023

Supreme Court ban on affirmative action at colleges and universities, state legislation attaching diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts on campus, and more general attacks on DEI, companies are considering whether they need to change their DEI strategies. The short answer is they don’t. They remain strong.

Company 172

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Asamby Consulting

JULY 25, 2022

What does a good strategy execution require If you have the right strategy and execute it well, your business will thrive. But given your strategy is smart, what's required to execute well on your strategy? This article outlines a simple framework to execute your strategy. It's that simple.

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Successful Independent Consulting

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

I said I could do an assessment, strategy, and plan in three to four weeks and my rate was $225 an hour. As a business owner, right now make up your mind that it is your policy not to discount your rate. Somehow when a client suggests a discount it’s easier to say no when you use the word policy. “As

Consulting 236

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Successful Independent Consulting

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Make it a policy. I also recommend making it your policy. Literally create a document titled “Rate Policy” and write down what rates you charge for what services. Your policy should be short, maybe half a page. No one is likely to see the policy except you, but having it will enable you to say to clients, “It’s my policy.”

Policies 195

Policies Benchmarking Examples Consulting 195

Successful Independent Consulting

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Make it a policy. I also recommend making it your policy. Literally create a document titled “Rate Policy” and write down what rates you charge for what services. Your policy should be short, maybe half a page. No one is likely to see the policy except you, but having it will enable you to say to clients, “It’s my policy.”

Policies 195

Policies Benchmarking Examples Banking 195

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? In o rder to appreciate why law firms need IT policies, i t’s important to first identify their purpose. Is it acceptable to use your family computer to access your firm’s work product?

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Epicflow

JANUARY 30, 2025

It helps standardize project management practices, ensure alignment with organizational strategy, and provide oversight to deliver projects successfully. A PMO has the following functions: Project governance includes establishing frameworks, methodologies, and policies to guide project execution. Agile, Waterfall, or Hybrid).

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 11, 2018

At a minimum, HR must find new talent and train everyone in the organization, tech departments must bring in new technologies and integrate them into existing infrastructures, privacy and security professionals must develop new policies and reach deep into the organization to enforce them, line organizations must deal with incredible disruption, everyone (..)

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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.

Insurance 209

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 2, 2023

years in management consulting, I transitioned to a Fortune 50 US company in an internal strategy role. Before outlining the benefits of internal strategy, I want to highlight a few things: I generally enjoyed my time as a consultant and view the firm I left with high regard. Internal strategy isn’t for everyone.

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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. Strategy Development. At some point in the future we will see a wave build in the private sector – the value proposition for getting smart about behavioral science is compelling.

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Successful Independent Consulting

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

You may be able to reduce those taxes by setting up an LLC and filing your taxes as an S-corporation , though thats a long-term strategy, not a yearly decision. Business insurance The amount you pay to protect your business from liability is tax-deductible, but a personal umbrella policy is not.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Five research-backed strategies from HBR’s archive.

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Steve Shu Consulting

JULY 4, 2015

Business and Strategy. Blue Ocean Strategy (Kim and Mauborgne). Behavioral Economics and Policy Design: Examples from Singapore (Low). Perhaps you’ll find something of here of interest to you for your weekend read. Design-Driven Innovation (Verganti). Negotiating Rationally (Bazerman and Neale). Blink (Gladwell).

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Harvard Business

JULY 25, 2023

But to scale this and make it a success, changes must be taken into consideration at both the policy level and in implementation in the areas of quality digital education, tax treaties and harmonization, and outsourcing-focused startups.

Development 172

Development Policies Engineering Software 172

Epicflow

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

To improve their project management practices, C-levels at HHI developed a sustainable management policy. To engage their employees to the fullest, HHI will implement a Team Responsibility Policy for quality failure costs. Credit: HHI’s Integrated Report 2017 World Maritime News reports that HHI has now set a target of $65.2

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2018

System-wide policies that disadvantage women. For example, in academic medicine, many university policies inadvertently penalize women who are in their child-rearing years. We don’t have data on policies in individual practices and hospitals, but we’d be surprised if they were any more generous.

Leadership 136

Leadership Policies Research Study 136

Harvard Business

MAY 19, 2021

Youngme, Mihir, and Felix debate the capital gains tax and discuss how companies can create better competitive strategies.

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