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Leadership and Your Long Term Legacy

Next Level Blog

  As I was walking through this ancient city searching for dinner tonight, I started thinking about the kind of leadership that must be required to start a project you won't live to see the end of.    That doesn't mean, however, that your leadership can't build a legacy that outlives you.

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How Coty Reinvigorated Its Supply Chain

Harvard Business Review

The experiences of global beauty company Coty Inc., where one of us is Vice President Supply Chain, suggests this “magic” can be repeatable. In 2010, Coty was rapidly expanding through acquisitions and internal growth and needed to align, integrate, and further accelerate improvements in its supply chain.

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Three Traps Facing New Global Leaders

Harvard Business Review

But for most rising executives, leading successfully in global markets is easier said than done. Recently, I spoke with Linda Sharkey , an author and expert in global leadership development and culture change, to chat with me about this issue. Think about Disney when they first tried to go global in the 1990s.

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Why CSR's Future Matters to Your Company

Harvard Business Review

In 2012 the rise in consumer activism and mobility, the Occupy movement, 24-hour accountability (thanks to social media), and global resource depletion will force every enterprise, large and small, to make CSR a focal point. More and more, companies are building long-term commitments to corporate social responsibility.

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How Companies Can Take a Stand Against Bribery

Harvard Business Review

In 2016, the International Monetary Fund estimated that corruption amounted to roughly 2% of global economic output — between $1.5 and $2 trillion globally. Bloomberg Creative Photos/Getty Images.

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Timberland’s CEO on Deciding to Engage with Angry Activists

Harvard Business Review

The first one accused Timberland of supporting slave labor, destroying Amazon rain forests, and exacerbating global warming—all in the first sentence. The senders didn’t threaten a boycott but said they were “concerned” and urged us to work with Greenpeace to find a “permanent global solution” to both deforestation and climate change.

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The Future Economy Project: Q&A with Marne Levine

Harvard Business Review

Previously, she was the vice president of Global Public Policy at Facebook. Levine talked with HBR about her firm’s sustainability efforts as part of the Future Economy Project, an HBR initiative that shares real-world lessons on sustainability leadership. Future Economy. Mission-Driven Sustainability.