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Are Your Employees Drivers or Victims of Process Innovations?

Harvard Business Review

In his 1990 classic HBR article " Reengineering Work: Don't Automate, Obliterate ," Michael Hammer argued that IT must drive radical process innovation. Hammer nonetheless argued for using the power of information technology to redesign a cross-functional process, then deal with the people issues.

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An Inside View of How LVMH Makes Luxury More Sustainable

Harvard Business Review

Looking at LVMH’s efforts, I’ll highlight three areas where I see great impact and innovation: managing carbon and energy, building a connection with customers around brand purpose, and working closely with suppliers. Managing Carbon and Energy. I’ll then discuss some of LVMH’s challenges.

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Have You Earned the Right to Lead? Ten Deeply Destructive Mistakes That Suggest the Answer Is No (and How to Stop Making Them)

Strategy Driven

The business environment may change, but no management trend can displace the core laws, proven over centuries, of excellent leadership. But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? There are two basic operating modes for organizations under high-stakes execution pressure.

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What Good Is Impact Investing?

Harvard Business Review

You could, Drexler and Noble write, take advantage of government subsidies to invest in affordable housing or renewable energy (something that, as they note, people have been doing for decades). Noble: Economies and business operate in very complex systems. So here’s the money management industry. We don’t want to go there.