Coaching Tip

MARCH 29, 2011

Nearly 13% of chief financial officers, chief marketing officers, and other C-level executives say that having input into company decisions is their top reason to stay with a company, according to the survey. Source: The Wall Street Journal, March 28, 2011. According to the survey, 4.7%

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

But as we have suggested elsewhere, activists are here to stay , and are increasingly prominent players on the equity landscape—sometimes even inside the company boardroom. More than 200 activist-investor initiatives hit companies in 2013, a seven-fold increase over a decade earlier.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Editor’s note: When the Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba goes public, as it will soon, Yahoo will earn many times its significant original stake in the company — a surprising ending to a tale of experimentation and discovery. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 12, 2012

I used to work in the red-hot center of one of the most youth-oriented companies on the planet, Nickelodeon. And federal age discrimination actions filed annually increased 66% between 1999 and 2011. An obsession with youth is not a phenomenon unique to a company like MTV Networks, focused on programming for people under 30.

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