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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Pharmaceutical companies have long needed deep scientific-innovation leadership capabilities but relatively few general managers. Copyright (c) 2011.

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What Management 2.0 Looks Like

Harvard Business Review

In this first leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation , we asked the most progressive thinkers and radical doers from every realm of endeavor to share a story, a hack, a disruptive idea, or an experimental design that illustrates how the web can help overcome the limits of conventional management and create Management 2.0.

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Africa's Growth Opportunity

Harvard Business Review

A decade on, in January 2011, The Economist has revised its dark vision, calling Africa's countries " The Lion Kings.". And this is the interesting opportunity that is emerging: By 2020, 128 million households (600 million people) will have reached the consumer class, according to McKinsey's estimates. One such is General Electric.

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Blogging on Business Update from Bob Morris (Week of 11/26/12)

First Friday Book Synopsis

I hope that at least a few of these recent posts will be of interest to you: BOOK REVIEWS The Complete Executive Karen Wright Harder Than I Thought Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O’Donnell HR Strategic Project Management SPOMP Leon M. Hielkema INTERVIEWS Matthew E. May: Second Interview, Part 1, by Bob [.].

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Leading in a World of Resource Constraints and Extreme Weather

Harvard Business Review

” These information-focused leaders emerged as the world changed and the capabilities that companies needed shifted over time. McKinsey, for example, recently outlined the “new organizational capabilities” that chemical companies should develop to deal with frequent oil price shocks.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

McKinsey reports that the value at stake from sustainability concerns can be as a high as 70% of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization. Flooding in 2011 in Thailand, harmed 160 companies in the textile industry and halted nearly a quarter of the country’s garment production, increasing global prices by 28%.