Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Of the 97 largest listed companies in the UK and the Eurozone in 2010, only 37 had a COO in their executive ranks. Part of the problem may be in the backgrounds that companies desired: 85% of COOs had experience in operations, strategy, or finance. Few European companies have COOs, although their numbers appear to be growing.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. For example, after its spin-off from International Paper, Arizona Chemical drastically changed its market approach from a drive for volume to margin optimization.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

For example, it increased both the number and status of safety personnel, and it strengthened safety operating procedures. Then there’s the explosion of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, an accident that killed 11 workers, injured 16 others, and caused an oil spill of epic proportions.

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Organization McCombs Pharmaceuticals Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Yet, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, around 4 million people earned their living working with computers in 2010. Many of these jobs – those dealing with computers, for example – could not have been foreseen in 1963, since computers were still primitive and rare.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

There are similar stories in the electronics industry, pet food, pharmaceuticals, and even national security. First, the more global the company (in terms of the range of countries it operated in and the proportion of its sales made outside the U.S.), But are businesses any better informed than their customers? We wanted to find out.

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