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Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 9, 2011
COOs are relatively common in service industries such as financial services, energy, information technology and telecommunications, but in manufacturing sectors — such as automotive, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies — they are relatively rare. It still doesn't seem necessary to be a COO in order to take over as CEO, though.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 19, 2011
We had it all — strong capital markets, rich natural resources, unparalleled higher education, and geographic separation from two devastating wars. Although well-intentioned, these programs often have the unintended consequences of benefiting the wrong businesses, favoring sub-optimal technology, and creating market distortion.
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Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 23, 2010
Yes, they are closer to the business and should know better what they need to do so they can meet their business goals. Yes, they are closer to the business and should know better what they need to do so they can meet their business goals. The Conversation Blogs The Conversation Is HR Too Important to Be Left to HR?
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 24, 2010
Most of us spend most of our time chasing the immediate reward, the short-run "objective," the near-term "goal — in short, the expedient and the convenient. Or is there a bigger, more resonant, and fundamentally worthier goal we could — and should — be pursuing, like ensuring no human being goes thirsty?"
In the CEO Afterlife
APRIL 10, 2011
To ‘entrepreneurs in waiting’ who want to begin their careers in a corporation, I suggest the following: 1. Social media, telecommunications, high tech are today’s rising stars. To Scully he said, “Do you want to sell sugared water for the rest of your career or change the world?” Less than two years and I was in marketing.
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