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Morning Advantage: How Bosses Do Harm

Harvard Business Review

As Kannan Ramaswamy and Bill Youngdahl point out in this excellent Thunderbird research blog, they chuckle along with everyone else when they read Dilbert cartoons about the Pointy-Haired Boss. Two-thirds of them are still with the company — and they’re the ones making the decisions about where the products and the company are going.

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LVMH, Hermès, and the Danger of Going 'A Little Bit Public'

Harvard Business Review

This is much more than a fight between luxury goods organizations. Bernard Arnault has a proven track record of building luxury goods brands and creating financial value for a multitude of luxury product lines. Professor Michael Moffett is Continental Grain Professor of Finance, and Professor Kannan Ramaswamy holds the William D.

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CEOs Should Activate Their Company's Stakeholders

Harvard Business Review

This starts with two simple steps: organize theme-based communities linking the various stakeholders along the value chain, and give them platforms through which they can engage with each other, facilitated by the company's professional staff. So does a CEO go about activating the company's economy?

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Trust, Transparency and Value — How Google Is Working to Improve Online Advertising for Everyone - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM GOOGLE

Harvard Business Review

By Sridhar Ramaswamy, Senior Vice President of Ads & Commerce, Google. Google ad products now use over 180 filters to detect and remove invalid and fraudulent traffic. Digital advertising has played an important role in making the internet the free, open, vital place it is today.