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29 Fortune 500 Companies Have No Women on Boards

Women on Business

of the companies in the S&P 500, “remain all male in decision-making roles, with no women on the board of directors or among the company’s top five highest-paid officers.&#. Denbury Resources, Plano, TX. 8. EOG Resources, Houston, TX. L-3 Communications Holdings, New York, NY. QEP Resources, Denver, CO.

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Let’s Do Less Dead-End Work

Harvard Business Review

Ruchika Tulshyan is the author of The Diversity Advantage: Fixing Gender Inequality in the Workplace and the founder of Candour, an inclusion strategy firm. Resources: “ Why Women Volunteer for Tasks That Don’t Lead to Promotions ,” by Linda Babcock, Maria P. Kolb and Jessica L.

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It's Harder than Ever to Be a Senior Executive

Harvard Business Review

I've written about the rising significance of soft skills, including in the March 2011 issue of HBR (coauthored with Kevin L. Technical and functional knowledge are vital to making good judgment calls, being legitimate in the eyes of your people, and making resource allocation decisions. And for many people they're harder to learn.

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The $2,000 Car

Harvard Business Review

Poor countries will become R&D labs for breakthrough innovations in such diverse fields as housing, transportation, energy, health care, entertainment, telecommunications, financial services, clean water, and many others. Local Growth Teams (LGTs) must have P&L responsibility (this is a key hurdle for American multinationals).

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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

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. Says Abi Comber, Head of Marketing for British Airways: “Having P&L responsibility is incredibly powerful.

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How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

Harvard Business Review

With 440,000 employees in 170 countries, Palmisano recognized that IBM couldn't be run solely from the top; rather, it needed thousands of leaders operating collaboratively around the globe to fulfill its customers' diverse needs. His first act was to abolish IBM's corporate executive committee. Directness.

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What Big Companies Get Wrong About Innovation Metrics

Harvard Business Review

Companies as diverse as AIG, Disney, and Intuit have been building innovation teams, launching “accelerator” programs to attract promising startups, and giving employees seed funding to test out new ideas with real customers. P&L impact or other financial impact. Kenneth Andersson. stage to the next.