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All change?

Oct 15 2004 by Brian Amble
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Why do some change initiatives work and others fail dismally? Harvard Business School professor Michael Roberto and researcher Lynne Levesque have carried out an in-depth comparison of two generations of a customer-satisfaction program at a large American retailer to find out what it is that makes a change initiatives take hold.

HBS Working Knowledge | Four Ways to Create Lasting Change

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