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Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 21, 2018
In contrast, 70% of respondents think their boards have effective processes for staying current on the company; 69% for compliance; 66% for financial planning; and 55% for risk management — although we should note that managing risks is a crucial consideration when pursuing innovation.
Harvard Business Review
JUNE 16, 2015
The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes. We’re starting to recognize that this relatively new situation has important ramifications for how businesses operate, and we’re making some progress. Insight Center.
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Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 8, 2013
The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. James is using his expertise as a chemical engineer to develop new business models for base-of-the-pyramid consumers. Some are recent graduates.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 16, 2013
And 43% cited technology expertise, HR-talent management, international-global expertise, and succession planning as the skills missing most on their boards. The industry with the greatest skills gap was IT & telecommunications, whose boards are in serious need of international-global expertise and HR-talent management.
Harvard Business Review
APRIL 22, 2016
A few years later, she joined a start-up called BioAmber, producing chemical intermediates using sugars instead of fossil fuels. “Managing career cycles with flexibility and non-linear trajectories is important for us. It was a meaningful shift, allowing her to push for more sustainable alternatives to petrochemicals.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 2, 2015
He’d found a receptive chemical-company owner who was providing lab space and even some financial support. operations. The local economy hadn’t diversified beyond its base in tourism and real estate into fast-growing areas such as health care or bioscience, and entrepreneurial success stories were few and far between.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 28, 2014
Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. But perhaps its current woes are just a blip in a long, long history of facing and rising to challenges.
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