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Better Management Will Help Drive Productivity Improvements

The Horizons Tracker

In a previous article , I explored how technology is generally not feeding through into productivity statistics. Data shows that despite considerable advances in technology in the last decade, productivity has largely remained flat. and France.

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Is Your Next Great CEO a Management Consultant?

Harvard Business Review

While former management consultants are not frequently chosen as CEOs ā€” our research noted 28 former management consultants with five-plus years of consulting experience out of a total of 541 CEO transitions between 2004 and 2010 ā€” the evidence we’ve uncovered here would suggest that, as a class, they are fully worthy of consideration.

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What Apple Should Do with Its Massive Piles of Money

Harvard Business Review

In this letter, Iā€™d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Unlike Mr. Icahn, I do not write to you as an Apple shareholder (I hold no Apple shares).