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Africa’s Companies Need to Become More Like Training Schools

Harvard Business Review

Our organization focuses mainly on plugging the ‘skills gap’: we identify, train, and place underprivileged youths in emerging industries like the hospitality sector. However, our experiences so far have highlighted opportunities for even broader impact through a different approach to in-house training at African companies.

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How to Innovate with an Executive Sponsor

Harvard Business Review

It's why Christensen's Innovator's Dilemma is so difficult to overcome. So when it comes to innovation, executives are trained to value acquisitions, high profile product launches, and anything else they might use to surprise their analysts; without such surprises they can't generate unforeseen growth and placate investors.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business Review

Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. Garvin was famous at HBS for being a good mentor and a great listener. That quality made him (arguably) the quintessential HBR author. He didn’t produce one signature idea, like Robert S.