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CMI Hong Kong: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

Other key events we hosted included an in-person networking event with the HKU SPACE GMBA students and alumni, and four webinars on different topics: “Future Leadership in the Fourth Industrial Revolution”, “Deep Dives into STEM and Finance” as well as “Skills for New Employment Landscape” with the UNESCO HK Glocal Peace Centre.

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The Skills Doctors and Nurses Need to Be Effective Executives

Harvard Business Review

We are witnessing an unprecedented transformation of the health care industry. Many physicians and nurses excel at operations management because it requires the same kind of detail and complexity that is required to effectively manage a large clinical load. Leadership development Operations management Healthcare'

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Three Unexpected Ways to Help with Disaster Recovery

Harvard Business Review

But Thomson Reuters Foundation took a different tack in its response, going beyond donating to leverage its parent company's core competencies in information and the legal industry to catalyze change. They can examine the company's core operations to discover ways to help make a difference while continuing to make a profit. Take Cisco.

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Six Ways to Grow Your Job

Harvard Business Review

Find and follow the opinion leaders in your domain, read up on the classics , brush up on your Michael Porter. Managers who advance in their careers primarily by excelling at operational work go on doing operational work long after they could delegate those duties to other people. Learn to delegate once and for all.

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What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. Why did Jean Tirole win the Nobel Prize in Economics? Even Tirole betrays this bias.

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What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. Why did Jean Tirole win the Nobel Prize in Economics? Even Tirole betrays this bias.

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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. The division had just won a big contract with a major mobile operator in Qatar and needed to customize a smartphone system for the client’s Middle East–wide network in the next six months. “Good news?”