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Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study

Great Leadership By Dan

Financial management. Change management. The following functional areas exist within XYZ Widget: Finance, HR/Admin, Sales, Customer Service, Planning & Procurement, Materials Management, Manufacturing, and Quality Control. •Communication. Strategic planning. Strategic thinking. Creative thinking. Risk taking.

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Kodak’s Downfall Wasn’t About Technology

Harvard Business Review

The company filed for bankruptcy protection in 2012, exited legacy businesses and sold off its patents before re-emerging as a sharply smaller company in 2013. Sasson himself told The New York Times that management’s response to his digital camera was “that’s cute – but don’t tell anyone about it.”

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The Swedish CEO Who Runs His Company Like a CrossFit Gym

Harvard Business Review

What happened to being rewarded for consistent, quality work over the long-term? Between 2001 and 2011, the number of CEOs finishing at least one marathon doubled, and in a Swedish survey of nearly 3,000 managers , more than 90% said that physical exercise had a positive impact on their leadership skills.

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Keeping It Professional When You Work in a Family Business

Harvard Business Review

When your manager is also your parent, sibling, or another relative, how do you keep things professional? Toby Bozzutto’s father, Tom, never asked him if he wanted to work in the family real estate management company. ” Toby did everything his father asked, joining The Bozzuto Group in 2001 as a development associate.

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What You Might Not Know About the Cuban Economy

Harvard Business Review

It means there is access to basic, quality healthcare. One is that the quality of applied science seems to be first rate. agricultural exports to Cuba in late 2001 under presidential discretion, which exceeded $5 billion between 2002 and 2014. In 2013 in U.S. That means levels of education are good. Bush authorized U.S.

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 3 of 4

Strategy Driven

So also should diversity, branding, quality, marketing, re-engineering and other important processes. The same planning process that nurtures Crisis Preparedness can and must also accommodate for Crisis Management. Having done so put the city in the position of responding to the unthinkable on September 11, 2001. by Hank Moore.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business Review

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. That quality made him (arguably) the quintessential HBR author. He didn’t produce one signature idea, like Robert S.