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New Year. New Leader.

Lead Change Blog

Amy Cuddy – She is known around the world for her 2012 TED Talk, which is the second-most-viewed talk in TED’s history. Bill George – He has taught leadership since 2004 and is a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School, where.

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More Insiders Are Becoming CEOs, and That’s a Good Thing

Harvard Business Review

That’s the highest proportion since the firm began conducting the survey in 2004, and a big increase since 2012. While they might be good at cutting costs, they rarely knew enough to manage growth and innovation. Fields spent nearly a decade overseas learning how to compete with leaders in the industry in their markets.

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?Numbers Show Apple Shareholders Have Already Gotten Plenty

Harvard Business Review

Icahn later reduced his buyback request to $50 billion, and in April 2014 Apple’s board approved a $30 billion program to be carried out by repurchasing its shares on the open market — either by just buying shares outright or doing it indirectly via accelerated share repurchases. trillion on buybacks (51% of net income) and another $2.3

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Why the South Will Lead in the Global Tilt

Harvard Business Review

The center of gravity for jobs, wealth, and market opportunities is moving, disrupting the world economic order as we have known it. In 2011, for the third year in a row, the Euromonitor International market research firm ranked Haier as the top appliance brand in the world, calculated its retail volume share as 7.8

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Coca-Cola, for example, faced a water shortage in India that forced it to shut down one of its plants in 2004. Fostering innovation. Since its launch in 2012, Flyknit has reduced 3.5

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How to Turn Around Nearly Anything

Harvard Business Review

I’ve been involved with turnarounds for years, including observing and writing about the Red Sox 2004 World Series win that reversed many decades of being almost-rans. Forget bureaucrats, fancy lobbies, and marketing expense! Their game is baseball, my game is change. Decisions are made behind closed doors.

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Three Strategy Lessons From the Latest Round of Xbox vs. PlayStation

Harvard Business Review

The electronics giant had seemingly lost its dominant position in the gaming console market, with the Nintendo Wii’s surprise success overshadowing the more powerful but pricier PS3. Cloud-based gaming poses a higher risk to the casual end of the market because it allows relatively complex games to be played on simpler, cheaper devices.