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Getting Women Onto Compensation Committees Helps To Reduce Gender Bias

The Horizons Tracker

A common argument behind the gender pay gap is that too few women operate on compensation committees, which results in women persistently being underpaid even if they do break the glass ceiling and make it to the top of our organizations.

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Nathan Ives Named StrategyDriven Enterprises Chief Executive Officer

Strategy Driven

Senior industry leader adds hands-on management and operational experience to StrategyDriven’s Power & Utilities focused advisory services. At StrategyDriven, we’re proud to be working with industry leaders to address these challenges and adapt their organizations so they continue to operate safely, reliably, and efficiently.”.

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How to Turn Around Nearly Anything

Harvard Business Review

The Boston Red Sox 2013 World Series championship will long be remembered as proof that you can turn around nearly anything. I’ve been involved with turnarounds for years, including observing and writing about the Red Sox 2004 World Series win that reversed many decades of being almost-rans. Inconvenient facts are papered over.

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The Case for Lending Out Your Star Performers

Harvard Business Review

For example, the power company Tenaga Nasional could send a leader with strong operating capabilities to work for several years at Malaysia Airlines, acquiring skills in turning around a troubled business. Peter Voser, the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell from July 2009, retired in May 2013.

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How U.S. Businesses Can Succeed in India in 2015

Harvard Business Review

” In the same month SoftBank of Japan committed to investing $10 billion into India over the next several years and CEO Masayoshi Son proved his seriousness by pouring the first billion into an Indian e-commerce company (Snapdeal) and a car-sharing service (Olacabs). But it won’t be “India’s fault,” in our view.

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Could a Four-Year-Old Do What Carl Icahn Does?

Harvard Business Review

Write a letter to the company’s board demanding that it do something different from what it’s doing (buy back shares, break up, sell out to another company, throw out the CEO). billion in 2013, making him the fifth highest-paid fund manager in the land. His game plan instead looks something like this: Buy stock in a company.

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