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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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How Share-Price Fixation Killed Enron

Harvard Business Review

In December, 2001, just prior to filing for bankruptcy, Enron Corporation had approximately $2 billion in cash and no debt coming due. In a keynote speech , he said Enron went bankrupt because of "decisions" made in October 2001. Were the rating agencies aware of Enron''s oft-maligned financing structures?

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Make Agility Part of Your Process

Harvard Business Review

Rational managers for the past thirty years have tightly focused on efficiency, cost cutting, and day-to-day execution — perhaps to a fault. For example, in 2001, IBM set up a permanent transformation organization designed to anticipate and respond to the increasingly unpredictable changes in its markets.

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The Tempting of Rajat Gupta

Harvard Business Review

What makes the matter fascinating to industry watchers, approximately their equivalent of the Charlie Sheen supernova, is that Gupta served three terms as managing director of McKinsey & Co., In his tenure as McKinsey's worldwide managing director, Gupta displayed macher-like ambition not just for himself but even more so for his firm.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business Review

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. Earnings quality: Accruals as a share of revenue. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. We calculate that U.S.

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Nabob and the Coffee Kerfuffle: How the 120-year-old brand managed to maintain its challenger status.

In the CEO Afterlife

And everyone is trying to climb to the top of that to get ahead,” explains Heather Fadali, senior brand manager for coffee at Kraft Heinz, Nabob’s parent company. The change in management, which included Bell and Powell, meant a big change in how the company would operate in the following decades. Not just your average quality Joe.

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4 Failure Points that Can Undermine Your Business – Failure Point 1: Follow Your Passion at Your Peril

Strategy Driven

The first product I envisioned was a high-quality commercial real estate magazine listing properties for sale, lease, and sublease. (I In 2001, Ed earned Entrepreneur of the Year honors from Ernst & Young. I undertook this venture at a time when the Internet was not yet widely available for commercial use.). 500 company.