These two “Best Practice” Case Studies are good examples of “Evidence-Based Management”, as opposed to intuition-based management. Harrah’s was a company that seemed to be focused on the right things and some of the lessons that can be gleaned from these case studies are in the paragraphs that follow. Gary Loveman was a Harvard professor […]
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Evidence-Based Management
From an article in the Harvard Business Review, January 2006 by Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton. In our information-intensive world there is undoubtedly a heck of a lot of information out there. However, many businesses (even including medical professionals, as discussed in the article) don’t use it to make decisions. It is difficult to […]
Good to Great, or Just Good?
In this article Niendorf and Beck, of University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh content that due to two fatal errors, arguably one of the most influential business books ever written, Good to Great, provides no evidence that applying the five principles, of the book, to other firms or time periods will lead to anything other than average […]
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