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Why American Management Rules the World

Harvard Business Review

We have developed a tool to measure management practices across operational management, monitoring, targets, and people management. A key takeaway is that individual companies are not trapped by the national environments in which they operate — there are top performers in all countries surveyed. Human capital is important.

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The Coherent Conglomerate

Harvard Business Review

Danaher, a smaller but very profitable conglomerate with a diverse range of manufacturing businesses, has a very different set of strengths; it applies its distinctive lean production system to a variety of product sectors, often through companies that it acquires and then transforms.

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