Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2011

Early in my career, when sharing a vacation house with a group of friends, I learned an important lesson from a classic book by anthropologist Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger : It takes a lot of people cooperating to keep things neat, but it takes only one disgruntled dirt-monger to mess things up. Develop and announce exciting plans.

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Harvard Business Review

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Last month, Patrick Pichette, Google’s 52-year-old chief financial officer, announced that he was retiring to spend more time with his family. Gender comes into play here as well: women lost more emotional support than men when they negotiated competitively, and gained less than men when they negotiated cooperatively.

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Harvard Business Review

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According to ThedaCare's chief financial officer, Tim Olson , top management viewed it as a significant waste of time. ThedaCare also introduced a daily financial management tool for department managers. This shift will require personal transformations for most C-level executives, especially the chief financial officer.

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Harvard Business Review

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But from a business person's point of view, Sorkin and other writers in the section don't even discuss one of the most important developments of the last 25 years: the rise in the role, status and importance of the general counsel and other inside lawyers employed directly by the corporation. In these, financial incentives are aligned (i.e.,

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Local suppliers and their sub-contractors are susceptible to pressure to behave “patriotically” when authorities convey the message, however tacitly, that lack of cooperation with foreign multinationals is in the national interest. Nor do those countries have the resources to develop them rapidly. Yuji Sakai/Getty Images.

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