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Hiring For Cultural Fit Can Be Good But Comes With Risks

The Horizons Tracker

Cultural fit To add further weight to this argument, research from Columbia Business School found that systems designed to measure cultural fit can help when it comes to instilling company values as well as retaining employees and supporting productivity. Open and shut So, it seems like a pretty open and shut case, right?

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How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Harvard Business Review

We see this in our research at Columbia University and have identified many examples where CEOs benefit their businesses by partnering across sectors with public officials, nonprofit managers, and community members. Apollo Hospitals focuses on medical service delivery through a geographically diverse network of CSCs.

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‘Upskilling’ a top priority for the decade ahead

HR Digest

In an interview with The HR Digest , Tyszko explains the crucial importance of tapping into hidden talent in new ways and achieving diversity, equality and inclusion goals in 2020. The HR Digest: You have been critical in pushing for progress in diversity & inclusion (D&I) in the workforce.

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When Managing Complexity, Less is More

Harvard Business Review

How does one successfully manage a company with a dozen diverse, decentralized businesses of varying sizes that employ over 100,000 people in 130 countries, especially in an uncertain economic environment? The answer is to make things simple, says Bill Allen, head of Group Human Resources at Copenhagen-based A.P. Moller-Maersk.

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India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Suzlon recently completed its acquisition of Germany-based REpower Systems, gaining access to cutting-edge expertise in aerodynamics and electronics. The Indian firms we studied promote diversity in their R&D management by hiring external talent to build and oversee their global innovation network. Reliance MediaWorks. and the U.K.

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An Agenda for the Future of Global Business

Harvard Business Review

Advanced manufacturing technologies, for example, are starting to reshape the supply chain road map that’s been in place for the past few decades by reducing the importance of scale in production, increasing flexibility, and enabling production to move closer to end markets. As an example, look at the digital skills gap.

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To Understand the Future of Tesla, Look to the History of GM

Harvard Business Review

When Sloan became president of GM in 1923, he put in place planning and strategy, measurements, and most importantly, the principles of decentralization.” Sloan transformed corporate management into a real profession, and its stellar example was the continuous and relentless execution of the GM business model.