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CMOs and CEOs Can Work Better Together

Harvard Business Review

When Deborah DiSanzo took over as CEO of Philips Healthcare in May 2012, she knew that engineering would continue to drive innovation. But she also realized that the company needed to develop greater marketing muscle to drive a commercial transformation. As she put it, “Our markets are going through dynamic change.

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What's to Be Learned from Ousted Leaders?

Harvard Business Review

When you meet him — for me it was at a BankInter-hosted gathering of scientists, business innovators, and policy experts in Madrid — you''re struck by his no-nonsense style and gruff Brooklyn charm. Stephen Joel Trachtenberg is by all accounts a mensch. And what people used to call a stitch. Their basic words to the wise?