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Harvard Business Review
APRIL 6, 2018
It happens all the time: A group of managers get together at a resort for two days to hammer out a “strategic plan.” At the start of my public seminars on strategic planning I ask attendees, who rank from board members and CEOs to middle management, to write down an example of a strategy on a sheet of paper.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 18, 2018
Lance Best, the CEO of Barker Sports Apparel, was meeting with Nina Kelk, the company’s general counsel, who also oversaw human resources. Five years earlier, when he’d stepped into his role, he’d been focused on growing the company that his father, Eric — the previous CEO — had founded. Doing Just Fine.
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Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 28, 2017
While it’s clear that CEOs need to consider AI’s business implications, the technology’s nascence in business settings makes it less clear how to profitably employ it. They add that strong support comes not only from the CEO and IT executives but also from all other C-level officers and the board of directors.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 3, 2014
In 1949, President Harry Truman appointed Scott Paper CEO Thomas McCabe (BA in economics, Swarthmore) to take over from Eccles, and McCabe began pushing Treasury to give control over interest rates back to the Fed. Then, during World War II, Eccles acceded as the Treasury Department forced the Fed to buy U.S.
Harvard Business Review
NOVEMBER 28, 2012
At least in the US, we seemed to have developed a sort of allergy to the idea of a CEO getting into policy-shaping. Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz offered an even more direct broadside. But whether European politicians will be able to hammer out a deal. There is a difference, and it's not just a semantic one.
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