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Race at Work: Lessons in Diversity and Culture from Mastercard

Harvard Business Review

A conversation between Porter Braswell and Donna Johnson about diversity in large corporations.

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Innovation in Complex Civic Environments

Mills Scofield

Writers as diverse as Aldo Leopold and Margaret Wheatley have been advising us for decades on how to recognize and function in complex environments – where solutions emerge based on the interactions of independent agents, and no one is in charge. As Michael Porter has said, “Innovation is the central issue in economic prosperity.”

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20 Interesting Behaviors of Strategy Tourist

Strategy Driven

Create diversions when things get difficult. ’ It creates a great diversion from the real issues. He has shared the stage with prominent strategists like Michael Porter and reached out to 21,000+ leaders in 30+ countries. So take advantage of all the strategy tourists you know and develop opposite behavior.

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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. Mellon Professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh. She is also a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research. Williams and Marina Multhaup.

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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

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. If you frequent the HBR Blogs, you may have noticed that a couple of weeks ago I was fairly vocal about Nilofer Merchant 's dismissal of Porter's value chain.

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Why The Best Teams Might Be Temporary

Harvard Business Review

Uzzi and Spiro wanted to know if the strength or diversity of those relationships affected the success of the show. Consider the innovation consultancy Continuum , which hires a diverse array traditional designers, engineers, psychologists, artists, MBAs, and ethnographers.

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