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Research Suggests Firms Should Look Externally For New Bosses

The Horizons Tracker

New markets The data implies a lively market for CEOs, enticed by the prospect of elevated remuneration, reduced public scrutiny, and the operational proficiency that private equity (PE) firms offer. The study also noted that there were around 30,000 private equity deals with a total value of $4 trillion between 2016 and 2021.

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Deadly Disease of Management: Emphasis on Short-term Profits

Deming Institute

Thomas Johnson and Anders Broms, the authors provide many good thoughts on the problems of accounting measures and management. Many large investments at our railroad and utility operations are also made with an eye to payoffs well down the road. …. In Profit Beyond Measure by H. They seek to change the system to change the behavior.

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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.” 2010, January).

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How Companies Can Take a Stand Against Bribery

Harvard Business Review

In 2016, the International Monetary Fund estimated that corruption amounted to roughly 2% of global economic output — between $1.5 Business needs to play a more powerful role in supporting responsible practices throughout every aspect of their operations. Bloomberg Creative Photos/Getty Images. and $2 trillion globally.

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Research: Cloud Computing Is Helping Smaller, Newer Firms Compete

Harvard Business Review

Putting data “in the cloud” essentially means paying someone else to manage it, and then connecting to their servers via the internet to access your data when you need it. of firms had adopted it in 2010, whereas 7% had by 2016, which is an annualized growth rate of almost 50%. firms since the 1980s. Less than 0.5%

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The Best-Performing Emerging Economies Emphasize Competition

Harvard Business Review

More than half that reached the top quintile in terms of economic profit generation between 2001 and 2005 had been knocked off their perch a decade later, in 2010-15. Indeed, it is much harder for this plethora of emerging-market firms in the outperforming countries to get to the top and then stay there.

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How Netflix Expanded to 190 Countries in 7 Years

Harvard Business Review

By 2017 it was operating in over 190 countries, and today close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. before 2010, and in only 50 countries by 2015. and Netflix has managed to make inroads into even those markets where Prime arrived first. Yet the majority of Prime subscribers are in the U.S.,