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Retaining Directors Isn’t The Silver Bullet For Merger Success

The Horizons Tracker

Mergers and acquisitions often have a pretty dreadful success rate, and one tactic firms deploy to try and improve their chances of success is to try and retain at least one board-level direct from the target company. In all, the researchers analyzed over 550 acquisitions that had taken place between 2004 and 2014.

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Partnering With Universities Can Help To Protect Firm’s IP

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers explain that while firms reap significant benefits from the innovations that often arise from partnering with universities, the fact that academics usually wish to publish their work in academic journals can raise fears that the secret sauce will be exposed to the wider world.

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New Framework For Smarter Crowdsourcing

The Horizons Tracker

Crowdsourcing has been one of the most popular forms of open innovation ever since James Surowiecki popularized the notion in his bestseller The Wisdom of Crowds in 2004. Despite the pay-for-results nature of the process appearing to make it an open goal, it’s no guarantee of success, with many failing to achieve expectations.

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ROI of Executive Coaching 500% Return

CO2

Understanding the ROI of Executive Coaching is crucial for organizations committed to fostering growth, innovation, and sustainable success. ” (March 2004), noted that companies heavily investing in employee development outperformed the S&P 500 significantly, by 17 – 35%, during 2003.

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Socio-Cultural Activities Help Immigrants To Integrate

The Horizons Tracker

The study was based on data from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe from 2004 to 2017 and covered 29 countries in total. As the number of people migrating has risen, there has been a growing emphasis on how successfully they’re able to integrate into their new communities.

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Two Team Building & Leadership Success Stories

Mike Cardus

Below are two short success stories. To read more success stories check out Team Building Stories and the Exponent Leadership Stories. Team Building & Leadership Success Stories. Interested in your organization or team having a success story? Financial Services Group. Creating and executing new revenue streams.

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Lead Change like a Slinky®

Lead Change Blog

The workshop was a success. Change can also offer an enormous amount of benefits, like growth in a career, innovation for the future, and discovering new possibilities in life. So much so that you begin to believe that your successful, Slinky ® style change could climb a staircase! But we don’t need to fear change.

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