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How Risk Reduction Is (and Isn't) Rocket Science

Harvard Business Review

This approach ensured that project resources were properly allocated where they were really needed and minimized conflicts of interest and management overhead. An HBR Mini Case Study. Leveraging Executive Sponsors. It stands to reason that good project management requires active executive sponsorship. Get Ready to Fail.

Project 17
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How Risk Reduction Is (and Isn't) Rocket Science

Harvard Business Review

This approach ensured that project resources were properly allocated where they were really needed and minimized conflicts of interest and management overhead. An HBR Mini Case Study. Leveraging Executive Sponsors. It stands to reason that good project management requires active executive sponsorship. Get Ready to Fail.

Project 15
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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

have been carefully observing Enron with interest since 1984 and have seen the trouble coming for most of those years. The company cried ‘case study’ from the very beginning, when it segued from the former Houston Natural Gas moniker. There were no checks and balances for members of the supply train.

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Why Hillary Clinton Gets Interrupted More than Donald Trump

Harvard Business Review

In one well-documented experiment, described in Sheryl Sandberg’s book Lean In , Harvard MBA students evaluated the same case study of a successful entrepreneur. Second, we can try to train our brain to make counter-stereotypical associations. First, we need to be aware of these biases and how they operate.