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The Biggest Obstacles to Innovation in Large Companies

Harvard Business Review

To be constructive, we also asked about the things that foster innovation.) But creating new places where people can gather to work on projects — subcultures within the larger culture — can be constructive. Inability to act on signals crucial to the future of the business (42% of respondents.). .

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New Research: Where the Talent Wars Are Hottest

Harvard Business Review

And companies also have to be prepared to not only attract, recruit and retain top talent — but diverse top talent. Our research found that companies are doing a very poor job leveraging diversity in their workforces. consumer durables & apparel, retailing, education, media, hotels, restaurants & leisure); Consumer Staples (e.g.,

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Joining Boards: It's Not Just Who You Know That Matters

Harvard Business Review

Both paths are problematic — neither is particularly transparent or relies on objective measures and given that many boards are stubborn bastions of white masculinity, pursuing the "right" network can be fraught, especially for women and other diverse candidates. banking & financial services, insurance, real estate); Health Care (e.g.,

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Growth Needs to Come from the Entire Company

Harvard Business Review

Consider the sports apparel company Under Armour. ” Its capabilities as a semiconductor company fit naturally with photovoltaics, but did not naturally translate to its new wind energy, battery, and construction/installation businesses.

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Talent Management: Boards Give Their Companies an "F"

Harvard Business Review

In fact, in two practices in particular — "firing" and "leveraging diversity" — many companies fail dismally. chemicals, metals and mining, paper and forest products), made out worst, scoring poorly on "firing" and "leveraging diversity," and not much better on "assessing talent" and "developing talent.".