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Study: Firms with More Women in the C-Suite Are More Profitable

Harvard Business Review

women make up nearly 40% of MBA graduates and 40% of managers. In many countries they make up an equal or greater share of tertiary graduates and the professional and technical labor force. And worldwide they are catching up to men in levels of education and workforce participation. Yet in the U.S.

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How Company Culture Shapes Employee Motivation

Harvard Business Review

In a recent strategy meeting we attended with the leaders of a Fortune-500 company, the word “culture” came up 27 times in 90 minutes. In this article, we address each of these to show how leaders can engineer high-performing organizational cultures — and measure their impact on the bottom line. DAVE WHEELER FOR HBR.

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The Mistakes Behind Healthcare.gov Are Probably Lurking in Your Company, Too

Harvard Business Review

I’ve seen this mistake numerous times in other industries — from a customer service fiasco by a major telecommunications company that launched DSL at too large a scale to NASA’s failure to recognize the implications of a foam strike in the Columbia shuttle tragedy. For this goal, it seems there is reason for cautious optimism.