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Office Design: How to Build a Better Office
A well-designed office is one of the easiest and most cost-effective ways to retain workers and make them more productive.
Tags: Space, Workplace, Employee, Microsoft Office, Conference, Worker, Office, Adjustment, Office Layout, Charlotte Wiederholt, Jane Hodges, Office Design, Office Architecture, Design
Image Gallery: Best and Worst Workplace Design
Want to make your employees more productive? Maybe you need nicer offices. Our image gallery of best and worst workplaces shows why design matters.
Tags: office design, workplace, productivity, workstation, collaboration
A New Game Plan for C Players
How to sustain a 23% annual shareholder return? Push your growth rate from 4% to 10% in one year? Triple your market capitalization in ...
Tags: Talent, 360-degree, Performance, C-player, Workforce Management, Performance Management, Human Resources, Harvard Business Review, In Brief, Beth Axelrod, Helen Handfield-Jones, Ed Michaels
Managing Demographic Risk
Around the globe, workforces are steadily aging, thanks to declining birth rates and the graying of the baby boom generation. Soon, boomers will be ...
Tags: Job, Worker, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Harvard Business Review, In Brief, Rainer Strack, Jens Baier, Anders Fahlander

Strategy

Using Your Marketing Database Effectively
The information in a marketing database can be used to achieve significant business benefits by supporting and improving performance across the whole spectrum of ...
Tags: Database, Customer, Information, Sector, Competitor Assessment, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Marketing Research, Sales, Marketing, BNET Editorial, Competitor
The Future of Operations Research
How one prominent academic sees OR's evolution
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How Operations Research Drives Success at P&G;
Operations research isn't just geek science at P&G.; It's an integral part of the company's marketing, sales and supply chain.
Tags: Team, Procter & Gamble Co., Wegryn, Team Management, Research & Development, Productivity, Branding, Tools & Techniques, Financial Planning, Management, Business Operations, Marketing, Finance, Andrew Hines, Operations Research, Analytics, Quantitative Analysis, Jake Swearingen
Keep Your Company Strong in a Slow Market
Every company needs to change its tactics during an economic slowdown. Here's how the smart ones survive.
Tags: Recession, Recession Proof, Recession Strategy, IMF, Working Capital, Managerial Accounting, Marketing Research, Finance, Marketing, BNET Staff
What Is Crowdsourcing?
Despite the jargony name, crowdsourcing is a very real and important business idea.
Tags: Software, iStockphoto.com, crowdsourcing, open sourcing, collective wisdom, mass collaboration, Crowdsourcing nomenclature

Work Life

How Star Women Build Portable Skills
A star performer in one company will shine in another, right? Wrong. When stars switch firms, their performance actually dims, along with their new ...
Tags: Women, Boris Groysberg, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Boris Groysberg, Harvard Business Review, In Brief
Who Is David Allen?
With his popular seminar lectures and cult-like following, productivity expert David Allen has become an influential force in the Information Age workplace.
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How to Stay Stuck in the Wrong Career
Are you one of the growing number of people struggling to make mid-career changes? Searching for ten easy steps to professional reinvention? Or awaiting ...
Tags: Article, Identity, Professional Development, Career, Herminia Ibarra, Harvard Business Review, In Brief, Work Life, Career Change
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Tags: Michael Mattis, wine, business dinner
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