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Salty to Sweet: The Transformation of Mount Franklin Foods

Change Starts Here

Dubbed the Transformation Team, the group of 35 managers would be responsible for developing and executing the strategy of the organization. Using the Balanced Scorecard methodology, the team developed a one-page strategy map, which detailed the objectives the team was trying to achieve and showed how they were connected.

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Work-Family Guilt Is Wasted Energy

Harvard Business Review

The real issue is to develop the corporate leadership skills to manage a feminizing talent pool and a feminizing customer base. More than the much-publicized debates around boards, the executive team is the result of years of talent development. Today, most companies are still far from any level of balance at this level.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business Review

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation.