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. Other people are convinced by your actions.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

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. The financial targets are far easier to set but also far less useful as a tool to help managers achieve them.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

Because "business in society" issues pose so much risk (and in some cases opportunity), the general counsel is viewed in many companies having the same stature as the Chief Financial Officer. Having experienced, expert inside lawyers inside is the best way of controlling outside legal costs.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2018

” However, there are other ways for Chinese authorities to take reprisals against Western multinationals operating in China should they so choose. Yuji Sakai/Getty Images. It would undercut the high-ground that Beijing has occupied as self-appointed defender of “the rules-based international order.”

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