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

Great Leadership By Dan

There are many examples of companies that have successful leadership training programs in place, such as Bank of America, General Electric, Microsoft, Philip Morris, Novartis International, and Marriott International to name just a few. They are eager to learn new skills and take on additional responsibilities and bigger challenges.

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Idle Funds are the Devil's Playground

Harvard Business Review

Regarding the latter, we point to some well-documented and broadly perceived shifts in the geography, demography, and technology of global economic activity. vision of financial world order; as Time magazine reported, he was "bursting with hubris over its booming equity markets and its just-announced 5.6%

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When a Simple Rule of Thumb Beats a Fancy Algorithm

Harvard Business Review

So, a decade ago, marketing professor Florian von Wangenheim ( now at the ETH Zurich technical university in Switzerland) and his then-student Markus Wübben ( now an executive at a tech incubator in Berlin) set out, in Wangenheim’s words, to “convince companies to use these models.”. Customers Decision making Information & technology'

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Why Visionary CEOs Never Have Visionary Successors

Harvard Business Review

These misses weren’t in some tangential markets – search, mobile, and the cloud were where Microsoft users were heading. Between 2001 to 2008, Jobs reinvented the company three times. Without that, he is ill-equipped to make the right organizational, business model, and product bets to bring those innovations to market.

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Should Regulators Block AT&T's Acquisition of T-Mobile?

Harvard Business Review

AT&T's recently announced acquisition of T-Mobile will invite hellfire from telecom regulators who fantasize over a different market structure, in which 17 mom-and-pop carriers serve the masses with tender love and care. Wireless telephone prices are falling, a sign of competitive markets. It's the Prices, Stupid.

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How the U.S. Airline Industry Found Its Edge

Harvard Business Review

Between 2001 and the end of 2008, for example, no less than 15 U.S. In the past few years, profits have become positive across the industry, and market caps are soaring from prior lows. Retail banks found many ways to unbundle elements of their core offering that not everyone needed, like check-processing. So what happened?

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

During Immelt’s tenure, GE’s stock market value fell by about half. And in the 21st century, the majority of public company shareholders are institutional investors (banks, insurance companies, pensions, hedge funds, REITs, investment advisers, endowments, and mutual funds), not individuals. (In So what happened?

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