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Research Suggests Firms Should Look Externally For New Bosses

The Horizons Tracker

Choosing leaders The authors examined 193 private equity (PE)-backed companies valued at $1 billion or more, a figure comparable to mid-sized public firms in the S&P 400 Index, that were acquired between 2010 and 2016. Paying off The advantages of appointing an external CEO for private equity firms are clear, the research suggests.

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Avoid Doing the Wrong things Righter…But, “By What Method?”

Deming Institute

In one of his conversations found on YouTube and posted on January 11, 2010 (the year following his death), Dr. Ackoff provides the following insight about leaders doing the “right and wrong” things in the systems they lead: Peter Drucker said “There’s a difference between doing things right and doing the right thing.”

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3 Entrepreneurs Who Made It Their Mission to Lower Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

which cries out for breakthrough healthcare delivery innovations that aim at significant cost reductions and wider coverage. In 2016, the U.S. Innovation has the power to ratchet down U.S. Innovation has the power to ratchet down U.S. Reverse Innovation in Health Care: How to Make Value-Based Delivery Work.

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Women on Boards: America Is Falling Behind

Harvard Business Review

corporate boardroom representation , despite solid evidence that greater women's representation in corporate leadership correlates directly with improved business performance. European nations, so often criticized for stifling innovation in a tangle of tradition and regulation, have decisively leapfrogged the United States on this issue.

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How China’s Government Helps — and Hinders — Innovation

Harvard Business Review

As the era of China as the world’s low-cost manufacturer comes to an end, innovation has become the most important element in the state’s development blueprint. Given its ideological leanings, China presents itself as a unique experiment in the power of the state to help the economy become more innovative. in 2000 to 2.0%

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Research: CEOs with Diverse Networks Create Higher Firm Value

Harvard Business Review

We also found that this greater firm value comes from better corporate innovations and successful diversified M&As. Using BoardEx data provided by the Center for Corporate Performance, we examined a sample of 1,212 CEOs who led S&P 1500 firms between 2000 and 2010. Our findings have broad implications.

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A History of the Job Listing and How It Just Died [Infographic]

Kevin Eikenberry

2016 was the year the online job listing finally went belly up. First, here’s what happened in 2016. The early 2000s saw Careerbuilder and Monster going head-to-head for market leadership – largely in a race for distribution. This is driven by the fact that what people want from a job and a company has changed.

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