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October 2020 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

I believe the companies who have the best chance to survive this cataclysmic event, and any future global pandemics, are the ones that already have a set long-term vision for their organization. A seemingly small change in any one of these can threaten your viability and weaken your financial leverage.

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Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth

Harvard Business Review

The global financial crisis prompted many companies to pull in their horns, hoard cash, trim costs, and take a wary view of large investments. Bain & Company’s Macro Trends Group carefully analyzed the global balance sheet and found that the world is awash in money. times global GDP) to more than $600 trillion (9.5

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Research: CEOs with Diverse Networks Create Higher Firm Value

Harvard Business Review

To measure the diversity of their networks, we aggregated six factors — gender, nationality, academic degrees, majors, professional expertise, and global work experience — into a single diversity index using common factor analysis, a statistical tool that extracts the maximum amount of common variations of the six different components.

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I Got My Strategy from Greenpeace

Harvard Business Review

But there our story deviates from the norm because our turnaround wasn't based on cost control, financial leverage, or manufacturing efficiencies. trillion in savings globally from improved resource productivity. We put our money in because we saw an opportunity to turn a struggling company around and secure a high ROI.

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Private Equity’s New Phase

Harvard Business Review

A silent, seismic shift has dramatically altered corporate ownership and business governance globally. Traditionally, PE firms bring financial discipline and strategic clarity to firms they acquire. From 1996 to 2015, the number of publicly traded companies in the United States alone dropped nearly 50%.

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