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VW’s Board Needed More Outsiders

Harvard Business Review

In managing the fallout from BP’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster in 2010, company Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg had to take over from CEO Tony Hayward, whose gaffes and public blaming of partners had only exacerbated the crisis. Take the case of BP. Hayward’s leadership had contributed to BP underplaying safety its U.S.

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Many Companies Still Don’t Know How to Compete in the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

inch disk drives; LCD vs. CRT television; online vs. brick-and-mortar banks). It dominated the ultra-profitable, digital-photo-kiosk market, even pushing archrival Fuji out of Walgreens’s retail-pharmacy juggernaut. By 2010, Kodak had clawed its way to No. inch vs. 3.5-inch