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The 3 Types of Diversity That Shape Our Identities

Harvard Business Review

Diversity means different things to different people. Demographic diversity is tied to our identities of origin — characteristics that classify us at birth and that we will carry around for the rest of our lives. Experiential diversity is based on life experiences that shape our emotional universe. Diversity is dynamic.

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What Smart Boards Do When Investors Knock

Harvard Business Review

Ackman of Pershing Square Capital Management destroy value at J.C. And what about private-equity partners and sovereign-wealth managers who come on boards of large publicly-traded firms—not as activists but in the wake of taking a stake? Has Ralph Whitworth of Relational Investors restored shareholder value at HP? Did William A.

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The Top Five Career Regrets

Harvard Business Review

The group was diverse: I spoke with a 39-year-old managing director of a large investment bank, a failing self-employed photographer, a millionaire entrepreneur, and a Fortune 500 CEO. In 2005, an investment banker was asked to lead a small team in (now) rapidly growing Latin America. I wish I had acted on my career hunches.

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To Reform Capitalism, CEOs Should Champion Structural Reforms

Harvard Business Review

While these are all constructive strategies, they don't go far enough to challenge one fundamental assumption at the core of capitalism: that the for-profit firm is the only vehicle for organizing economic activity. British law created the Community Interest Company in 2005, and a number of U.S. treating suppliers as partners).

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Smart Benchmarking Starts with Knowing Whom to Compare Yourself To

Harvard Business Review

The biomedical search engine at PubMed.gov reports only 3 records from 1992 on hospitals and benchmarking , but reports 1,412 from the decade 2005-2014. Managing Yourself Book. There’s been night-time construction next door for the last year, and it’s almost done, so the problem will solve itself. Further Reading.

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Which Countries Will Rise to the Top in a Leaderless World?

Harvard Business Review

But all these constructions include a dizzyingly diverse set of economies that don't have much in common, and in any case the market conditions inside these countries tell only part of the story. Robert Ward of the Economist Intelligence Unit has added the CIVETS (Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey, and South Africa.).

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