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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

To increase diversity at senior executive levels, more must be known about one group in particular: women of color in midlevel leadership, who successfully developed and progressed beyond individual contributor and first-line management. How did (or didn’t) managers play a role? They pursue management challenges.

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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

But when they do leave, they will take with them years of institutional knowledge acquired on the job. Despite the media coverage of Boomers and how a tidal wave of retirements could impact business, many senior managers are kicking the can down the road, putting off the job of creating a system and process for capturing knowledge.

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Case Study: Will Our Chinese Partner Copy Our Technology?

Harvard Business Review

While Blue Sky is an SOE, I think they really want to differentiate themselves, and they're willing to use a lot of our technology.". Lin Dachun, the VP and general manager of the automobile electronics unit, cheered. Lin could see that he was awed by the scale of the operation. One person wasn't smiling.

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How to Bring in a New CEO for Your Startup

Harvard Business Review

The following steps can be used to successfully manage the transition to new leadership: Determine the strategy for the startup and identify CEO candidates’ experience executing a similar strategy. As the company grows, its management skills need to evolve. Ensure knowledge capture and transfer. Break away from the past.

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Facebook Changes Upend Advertiser and Agency Models

Harvard Business Review

Publishers have traditionally sold those "things" to them in an environment that operates with fairly little friction. Even when optimizing to a transaction, they do so with tacit knowledge of what each transaction is worth. These are "things" that display once, and then disappear, unless more of them are bought.

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How Corporate HQ Can Get More from Innovation Outposts

Harvard Business Review

Setting up innovation outposts in global technology clusters, such as Silicon Valley, Boston, and Tel Aviv, is highly popular among Fortune 500 corporations. So, even if the outposts manage to absorb local value they usually fail to propagate it back to the organization, which means they fail on the ultimate reason for their existence.

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Algorithms Make Better Predictions — Except When They Don’t

Harvard Business Review

Further, algorithms cannot (yet, anyway) tap intuition — the soft factors that are not data inputs, the tacit knowledge that experienced managers deploy every day, nor the creative genius of innovators. So what should managers, especially leaders, do? Algorithms only operate on the inputs they’re provided.