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CMI Hong Kong: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

Attentive to professional diversity and inclusion, we continue to collaborate among professional bodies, chambers of commerce, public sector, industries and higher education institutions on joint events of complementary relevance and membership benefits in leadership and management.

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The Commoditization of Scale

Harvard Business Review

Utility companies are the traditional example. Consider Porter's value chain. It was no small task for a corporation to get information from the point of sale to internal procurement teams to a diverse manufacturing network. In today's world, you don't need to have scale to enjoy scale.

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What Tops Your 2011 Agenda?

Harvard Business Review

That reflects the fact that, in a year that's been hard on people in organizations, we checked in first with some of the greats in that field. We found Ed Schein, for example, still working hard in his "emeritus" days, and hoping to discover keys to getting increasingly diverse teams to click fast and work as one in high-pressure conditions.

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

The breadth of article topics was large and the sample of rhetorical styles diverse. For example, a British study showed the precise ways in which management gurus in the 1980s U.K. During difficult economic times, organizations often seek ideas on how to cut costs or perform operations more efficiently. As the U.S.

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Meet Your New R&D Team: Social Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

The 'iPods' of poverty alleviation and literacy have likely been invented and put to use by small organizations in some corner of the globe, but there is no market for identifying these breakthrough ideas and ensuring widespread adoption.". Consider these examples: 1. The Innovation Continuum.

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The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013

Harvard Business Review

Meet the New Face of Diversity: The “Slacker” Millennial Guy. Research and examples published in HBR this year — including an account of a much more effective government agency’s approach to solving problems — prove how critical they are to innovation. Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? Why Men Work So Many Hours.

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How Companies Can Help Rebuild America’s Common Resources

Harvard Business Review

But these trends also had more negative consequences, as Jan Rivkin and Michael Porter have argued in their work as co-chairs of Harvard Business School’s U.S. These resources are in large part the domain of government, of educational institutions, and other community organizations. Competitiveness Project.