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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Jim Kim – 12th President, the World Bank. Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Former Executive VP and Head of Strategy & Transformation at TMB Bank. Telisa Yancy – Chief Marketing Officer at American Family Insurance. Sean McGrath – Human Resources Vice-President World Bank Group.

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Businesses Serving the Poor Need to Get Over Their Unease About Profit

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad and his colleagues more than a decade ago in a series of articles and books, and it has stuck in the minds of businesspeople, policy makers, and nonprofits despite results that can only be described as dismal. Prahalad's brilliance and persuasiveness certainly had something to do with it. It's practically the law of the land.

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Bureaucracy Must Die

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. This operational triumph is tempered, though, by Intel’s failure to capitalize on the explosive growth of the market for mobile devices. Almost 25 years ago in the pages of HBR , C.K.

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Bureaucracy Must Die

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad and I urged managers to think in a different way about the building blocks of competitive success. This operational triumph is tempered, though, by Intel’s failure to capitalize on the explosive growth of the market for mobile devices. Almost 25 years ago in the pages of HBR , C.K.

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

Conversely, why market cigarettes? He reasoned that if marketers worked on maximizing return on sales, production managers were rewarded for the sales they squeezed out of their physical plant, and finance managers focused on minimizing the amount of equity capital they needed, ROE would take care of itself. Social media spending?

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