Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

Data breaches are on the rise, with a 44% increase in the number of records exposed from 2011 to 2012. These and other IT-related problems aren''t rooted in technology but in leadership failings. The senior leadership needs to become literate in technology. The senior leadership needs to become literate in technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2017

Located in the heart of Colombia’s coffee region, in 2012 Manizales was a good place to grow up and get an education, and an even better place to retire, safe and surrounded by beautiful scenery. However, during their prime working years, most Manizalenos would move to Bogota (7 million people) or Medellin (2.5 strategic hires).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 15, 2016

Some leadership teams have served as guiding examples of how to overturn short-termism and reorient their enterprise. In 2012, John Deere CEO Samuel Allen began releasing long-term, aspirational revenue targets for 2018. “If you don’t like our strategy,” he told them. “Then get out of our stock.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Second, as a 20-year review from 1993 to 2012 showed, CEOs’ judgment affects key strategic and managerial processes , such as staffing, financing, and marketing decisions. Indeed, the consequences of destructive leadership are well documented, and they are most severe at the top. Especially When They Are Bad. In the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

In 2012 the world's problems grew more complex, but America's top 400 charities saw very little growth in their resources to address them. Across the world, Opportunity's field operations couple our financial products with training, preventative health education, and much more.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2015

To be sure, the proposal set forth by the Greek finance minister is less detailed than that of his predecessor, and leaves some room for maneuvering, but this is a mixed blessing, as the EU, the IMF, and the ECB will need to sign off on specifics. So, clemency on loan terms might make procedural sense. This looks unlikely.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

has renewed its product lines many times. Much the same occurred at Canadian Pacific Railway in 2012, when Pershing Square Capital Management acquired control of its board. Leadership Boards' With more than two centuries of making everything from gunpowder to nylon and Tyvek, Dupont Co. Here’s why.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Campbell, the food company best known for its soups, is investing $125 million in a venture fund to help finance food startups, according to the Wall Street Journal. Successful established companies are focused on increasing scale and are often better at scaling proof of concepts than creating new products from scratch.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2014

It broke into the open in April, 2012, when the New York Times published a lengthy investigative piece alleging Walmart bribery in a Mexican subsidiary and a cover-up in its Bentonville, Arkansas, global headquarters. anti-bribery, money laundering, product safety, etc.) Boards Leadership Wal-mart'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2013

This pact follows a February 2012 agreement between B of A, Citi, JPM, Wells Fargo and Ally with State Attorneys General and federal authorities to pay $26 billion for similar failings. billion to homeowners. Other banks are considering whether to join the agreement (e.g. Ally Financial and HSBC Holdings).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2016

billion, which has experienced incredible growth, with the total number of users having practically doubled each year since 2012. HelloFresh has also had impressive growth rates, with revenues reaching about $300 million in 2015, a huge increase from its $3 million in 2012. Financed by VC firms.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

The Avon Products Foundation — the charitable arm of the Fortune 500 cosmetics company, illegally appropriated our Breast Cancer 3-Day concept, and on August 11th, 2002, announced their plans for a multi-day walk for breast cancer with full-page ads in major papers across the country. Ten years ago today.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Quarterly profits have only increased 5% since 2012 , but investors’ valuations of those profits (as measured by earnings per share) has increased 59% over the same period. A recurring theme in those interviews was bemoaning major changes in R&D strategy that occurred as a consequence of new, often outside, leadership.

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HR Digest

JANUARY 22, 2022

For example, a general manager’s duties at a factory include overseeing production schedules, labor costs, and employee wages. Production managers supervise assembly-line workers and other employees who manufacture products or perform services for an organization. Leadership. Creating and implementing policies.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

These tax rates will remain in effect through 2012. Extends the repeal of phase-outs of personal deductions and limits on itemized deductions for higher income taxpayers through 2012. Extends certain middle class incentives and credits such as the Earned Income Credit and Coverdell Education Savings credit.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 14, 2014

Attempts to branch out into new product areas (security and enterprise switching) haven’t gone well. attempt to change the leadership and strategic direction of the company. Finance Tech industry Technology' But lately it’s been looking a lot like a mature substantial, profitable company. Neither have acquisitions.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2013

Better Place would then use these multi-year contracts to finance its infrastructure investments and battery depreciation. Finally, adding a service dimension to what had been a pure product sale allowed Better Place to address the final roadblock to mass adoption of electric cars: the generation and distribution of electricity itself.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. on H-1B visas, boost the economy by increasing innovation, productivity, and sometimes even employment. But in April, just after U.S. is able to maintain its elite status.”

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

And we are often happy to review these start-up plans — which include the typical elements such as a product description, competitive analysis, estimate of market size, and projected financials. In 2012 Echoing Green invested in 28-year-old Marquis Taylor as one of our Open Society Black Male Achievement Fellows.

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