priorities—financial and otherwise—in advance of that meeting. What was best for Sugar Bowl wasn’t necessarily best for Givens. Or was it? Background After graduating from business school in 2009‚ Givens returned to her native Raleigh‚ NC to implement a turnaround of Westlake Lanes. The ailing seventies-style bowling business was started by her deceased grandfather‚ Dane Sugar‚ in an old mill in downtown Raleigh. Guided by an entrepreneurial spirit and interest in general management‚ Givens tightened
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The Triple-A Supply Chain Key ideas from the Harvard Business Review article By Hau L. Lee The Idea in Brief The holy grails of supply chain management are high speed and low cost--or are they? Though necessary‚ they aren’t sufficient to give companies a sustainable competitive advantage over rivals. Consider these disturbing statistics: Though U.S. supply chains became significantly faster and cheaper between 1980 and 2000‚ product markdowns owing to excess inventory jumped from 10% to 30% of total
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EXPERIENCE HBR.ORG Case Study The Experts Christopher Marquis is an associate professor at Harvard Business School. Juan Almandoz is an assistant professor at lESE Business School‚ in Barcelona. Can an ’Ethical" Bank Support Guns and Frac king? by Christopher Marquis and Juan Almandoz Ken LaRoe‚ chairman and CEO‚ First Green Bank A John Replogle‚ president and CEO‚ Seventh Generation | B | HBR’s fictionalized case studies present B l dilemmas faced by leaders in real companies and offer solutions
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Is GO turnover really a problem at Club Med? What are the causes of turnover at Club Med? How does the international factor play into Club Med’s issues? Club Med is experiencing considerable turnover rates with GOs. This turnover can be either good or bad depending on the type of employee that is involved. Turnover is advantageous if the employee that quits or is terminated is not adding value to the company. This would be functional turnover. The organization should try to stop dysfunctional
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HE N EXT G ENERATION One-quarter of the highestpotential people in your company intend to jump ship within the year. Here’s what you’re doing wrong. How to Keep Your Top Talent by Jean Martin and Conrad Schmidt • Included with this full-text Harvard Business Review article: 1 Article Summary Idea in Brief—the core idea 2 How to Keep Your Top Talent Reprint R1005B SPOTLIGHT ON LEADERSHIP: THE NEXT GENERATION How to Keep Your Top Talent Idea in Brief Nearly 40% of internal job moves involving
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Guillaume Lacour Article Review 2 In a company‚ for different reasons we do not manage younger employees in the same way that we manage employees‚ which are in the company for several years. In an article from the Harvard Business Review‚ Michael Fertik has told us some good ways to teach and motivate employees in their twenties. The first step could be to give responsibility to young employees through a specific mission immediately. In that way the employee will to make decision‚ and if he does
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TO MARKET IN A DOWNTURN The article has been written by John A. Quelch (Senior Associate Dean and the Lincoln Filane Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School) and Katherine E. Jocz‚ a research associate at Harvard Business School in the April 2009 editions of Harvard Business Review Name: KAPIL KALRA Roll No: N-32 (North Campus)
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have more to gain by developing your gifts and leveraging your natural skills than by trying to repair your weaknesses. Here is a systematic way to discover who you are at your very best. How to Play to Your Strengths COPYRIGHT © 2004 HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. by Laura Morgan Roberts‚ Gretchen Spreitzer‚ Jane Dutton‚ Robert Quinn‚ Emily Heaphy‚ and Brianna Barker Most feedback accentuates the negative. During formal employee evaluations‚ discussions
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in Ho Chi Minh city. The current CEO of the Vietnam Uber branch is Dang Viet Dung‚ a MBA graduate of Harvard Business School (Vietnamnet‚ 2016). In an introduction posted on their website‚ Uber sees itself as “is evolving the way the world moves. By seamlessly connecting riders to drivers through our apps‚ we make cities more accessible‚ opening up more possibilities for riders and more business for drivers” (Uber‚ 2017). Uber is aiming to strengthen the relationship between the company and the
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somewhere in the middle. Yes‚ he writes in this article‚ innovation is real work‚ and it can and should be managed like any other corporate function. But that doesn’t mean it’s the same as other business activities. Indeed‚ innovation is the work of knowing rather than doing. Drucker argues that most innovative business ideas come from methodically analyzing seven areas of opportunity‚ some of which lie within particular companies or industries and some of which lie in broader social or demographic trends
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