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Eli Lilly CFO resigns over misconduct in workplace

HR Digest

Ashkenazi joined Eli Lilly in 2001. “We are confident in Anat’s ability to serve as our next CFO given her impeccable track record of leadership and business success across nearly all major parts of the company, most recently as corporate controller and head of the strategy,” Lilly CEO David Ricks said in a statement.

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Good to Great. Are you ‘good’ or maybe slightly below?

Strategy Driven

It revolves around self-assessment, an agreed-upon game plan of action, measurable results, and an overall spirit that includes individual work, teamwork, and remarkable leadership. Good to Great was published in 2001 way before social media dominated the scene. Leadership words that need to be banned. So far it’s simple.

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IKEA’s Success Can’t Be Attributed to One Charismatic Leader

Harvard Business Review

The store he founded, with its iconic blue and yellow logo and functional, minimalist furniture, is the largest furniture retailer in the world. There is no doubt that Kamprad’s personal tenacity, business savvy, and leadership skills account for IKEA’s success. But how did it hit on this winning strategy?

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Collaboration as an Intangible Asset

Harvard Business Review

At a major retail bank, early signals of an emerging rift between factions — manifested in very different networks of information sharing — made it possible to save an acquisition before it came apart.

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The Five Traps of High-Stakes Decision Making

Harvard Business Review

In 2007 AOL and Time Warner finally pulled the plug on the $350 billion 2001 merger that Time Warner chiefs Jeff Bewkes and Gerald Levin later called “ the biggest mistake in corporate history.”. In the popular mind, there’s a lot of luck and inspired leadership behind successful choices like Southwest’s.

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How Good Was Steve Jobs, Really?

Harvard Business Review

the first retail store, or the first iPod/iTunes product in 2001 that only worked on a Mac and had no online store). In the new book, Great by Choice , Jim Collins and Morten analyzed the 1997-2002 period and discovered something interesting.

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The Idealistic Realistic: What Really Helped Elevate Campbell Soup Company

Harvard Business Review

When I stepped in to run the Campbell Soup Company in 2001, the environment at Campbell was hugely challenging. There were a lot of things we changed, from the leadership team to package design — you've read about those. Perhaps you've heard the story. We'd lost half of our market value in just one year.

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