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When Managing Complexity, Less is More

Harvard Business Review

How does one successfully manage a company with a dozen diverse, decentralized businesses of varying sizes that employ over 100,000 people in 130 countries, especially in an uncertain economic environment? The answer is to make things simple, says Bill Allen, head of Group Human Resources at Copenhagen-based A.P. Moller-Maersk.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

Only legal, finance, and human resources still reported back to headquarters. A 2010 Harvard Business School case by Julie M. Wulf noted that Ma studied Jack Welch’s approach and was inspired by GE’s decentralized decision-making. Those issues slowed us down on the product side as well.