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Research: Black Employees Are More Likely to Be Promoted When They Were Referred by Another Employee

Harvard Business Review

But firms that rely on current employees to refer new hires could end up with a less diverse workforce. Specifically, we examined the personnel records of nearly 16,000 employees hired from 2003 to 2013 in a large U.S.-based The firm followed a “promotion from within” policy that operated on a strict schedule.

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The Potential and Pitfalls of Doing Business in Cuba

Harvard Business Review

Between 2003 and 2007, the Cuban government enacted a series of methodological changes that produced a jump in GDP of approximately 15%. Under such a scenario, multinationals would see expanded opportunity across diverse sectors. This effectively means that these wages are overvalued by as much as 2400%. Many risks remain.

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How the Navy SEALs Train for Leadership Excellence

Harvard Business Review

So I reached out to Brandon Webb, an innovative SEAL trainer/educator, and CEO of Force12 Media for real-world perspective on what industry could learn from a special operations sensibility. A member of Seal Team 3, Webb became the Naval Special Warfare Command Sniper Course Manager in 2003. That scares me. This was a precarious time.

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Navigating the Dozens of Different Strategy Options

Harvard Business Review

Managers and other business leaders face a dilemma: with increasingly diverse environments to manage and rising stakes to get it right, how do they identify the most effective approach to business strategy and marshal the right thinking and behaviors to conceive and execute it, supported by the appropriate frameworks and tools?

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A Case Study of Crowdsourcing Gone Wrong

Harvard Business Review

Since Henry Chesbrough coined the term open innovation in 2003, the most widely used form of open innovation has been innovation contests. The lesson here is that if open innovation creates a vast flow of diverse products, it makes achieving any scale economies very difficult. Target, Walmart).