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Make Your Work Resolutions Stick

Harvard Business Review

When Susan Hertzberg arrived as president and CEO of Boston Heart Diagnostics in 2010, it was losing money and had fewer than 40 employees. Susan has grown revenue over 100% CAGR since she took over, and the company has nearly 400 employees. ” Case study #2: Break big goals up into small action items. She had several big goals.

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Research Shows That Smaller M&A Deals Work Out Better

Harvard Business Review

This is one of the findings from a recently completed study based on publicly available information on the world’s 2,393 largest corporations for the time period 2010–2014. But these transactions need to reach particular thresholds of frequency and cumulative value to make a real impact. Axel Springer followed a similar path.

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