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Innovation Should Be a Top Priority for Boards. So Why Isn’t It?

Harvard Business Review

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. Director Recruitment and Skills. chemicals, metals & mining, paper & forest products).

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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. We also looked at results by industry and region.

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India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Chirotech specializes in biocatalysis and chemocatalysis, two important subspecialties of biotechnology and chemistry that help develop key biological and chemical intermediates needed for the efficient production of medicines. facility in Cambridge Science Park. Reliance MediaWorks.

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Talent Management: Boards Give Their Companies an "F"

Harvard Business Review

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. In fact, in two practices in particular — "firing" and "leveraging diversity" — many companies fail dismally. pharmaceuticals, biotechnology & life sciences, health care equipment and services); Industrials (e.g., Not rising costs.

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Case Study: Is a Promotion Worth Hiding Who You Are?

Harvard Business Review

division of the Korean conglomerate Hanguk Industries, where Mark, a vice president of technology, reported to him. ” Hanguk was a large, fast-growing company with diversified interests spanning electronics, biotechnology, shipping, construction, and chemicals. Diversity and Inclusion. David was the president of the U.S.

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Which Nation Has the Best 'Technik'?

Harvard Business Review

Paul Kennedy's seminal Rise and Fall of the Great Powers captures the way technological and economic advances have converted into strategic advantage, and how failure to "lock in" that edge accelerates imperial decline. Technik , then, is the technological quotient of civilization. It pledges $1.5 The contrast between the U.N.'s

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7 Charts Show How Political Affiliation Shapes U.S. Boards

Harvard Business Review

Our limited sample suggests that both groups agree that board leadership should serve as champions of board diversity, but they differ on the policies they advocate to increase board diversity. Meanwhile, Democrats place greater importance on technology expertise and risk management. Why does all this matter?