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Sleepless in Silicon Valley: What Keeps CEOs Up At Night

HR Digest

L-R): Anthony Horton, Chris McCarthy, Stephanie Neal In a recent interview, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed a startling confession: the architect of ChatGPT, a revolutionary language model capable of holding nuanced conversations and generating creative text formats, often struggles to sleep. .

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

Instead, the last few years have seen a proliferation of C-suite titles that include a component of marketing. This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond.

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Why Face-to-Face Meetings Make All the Difference

Harvard Business Review

In today's economy, where the fast growth of emerging markets outpaces America and the developed world, if you haven't gone global yet, it's time to get moving. One of the biggest challenges they face is how to manage a diverse group of people across a broad geographic scope. The agenda was always the same, and it was a marathon day.

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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

When Palmisano retired this month, the media chronicled his success by focusing on IBM's 21% annual growth in earnings per share and its increase in market capitalization to $218 billion. Palmisano could not have succeeded at placing values at the center of IBM's operations without strong principles of his own. Directness.

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How Can We Increase the Number of Women on Corporate Boards?

Women on Business

in emerging markets, and just 5.6% That’s despite the fact that there has been so much discussion about the need for boardroom diversity and more diversity in the C-suites, particularly for women to fill more of these positions. Getting more women on boards begins with getting more women in mission-critical P&L roles.

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Three Diversity "Best Practices" That Hurt Women

Harvard Business Review

Problem 1: Calling it Diversity. Whoever came up with the idea of putting gender issues under the diversity umbrella? How did women, who are 50% of the population, control 60% of global spending, and represent 60% of university graduates, ever accept to be positioned as a "diversity" demographic?

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Case Study: Time for a Unified Campaign?

Harvard Business Review

Palma Cay is Alegre's newest flagship hotel, and I think I can make it work with lower prices to the key travel agencies, tour operators, and online portals. You're responsible for your own P&L, just like all the other hotel managers, and that includes promotional spending of any kind. Palma Cay's first month," he said.