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Six Strategy Insights RIM's New CEO Can Use

Harvard Business Review

Heins, the new CEO of Research in Motion (RIM), has been plucked from the company's relatively obscure COO position to fill the giant shoes of two longtime co-CEOs as they depart at the behest of angry investors. Is it Apple's consumer appeal, or the declining influence of corporate IT managers?

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25 Years Ago I Coined the Phrase ?Triple Bottom Line.? Here?s Why It?s Time to Rethink It.

Harvard Business Review

How often are management concepts subjected to recalls by the people who invented them? Management concepts, by contrast, operate in poorly regulated environments where failures are often brushed under boardroom or faculty carpets. Yet poor management systems can jeopardize lives in the air, at sea, on roads or in hospitals.

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Corporations Weren’t Designed to Run on Code

Harvard Business Review

What we’re witnessing may be less the failure of corporations to thrive in a digital environment than the limits of the corporate model in any environment — and the acceleration of this decline with each new technological leap. The strategy works, temporarily putting more cash on the positive side of the balance sheet.