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The Ideas that Shaped Management in 2013

Harvard Business Review

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. The right kind of project management — and project manager — really matters. government, excellent project management is extremely rare.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

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Actually, this project started probably three or four years ago when Paul’s last book came out, which is called Jumping the S-Curve. In that sense, the Christensen solution has become counterproductive; in fact, it’s become dangerous. When I read it, I thought, well, there’s something here that’s tingling my spider senses.

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Why and How to Build an In-House Consulting Team

Harvard Business Review

Over the past six years, we have put in place a 30-person consulting team at EMC Information Infrastructure (EMC II) using a model we have found to be successful, winning projects away from external management consulting firms at a fraction of the cost, and with great “client” (that is to say, EMC) satisfaction. Win on merit.

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Africa’s Companies Need to Become More Like Training Schools

Harvard Business Review

The World Bank puts the figure at 38% in Nigeria , while the Economist projects 55% for young black South Africans. In June 2013, some Harvard Business School classmates and I launched a social enterprise ( WAVE: West Africa Vocational Education ) targeted at the youth unemployment issue.

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Using Data to Increase Patient Engagement in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

We’ve used this data for public-health projects such as tracking the impact of the Affordable Care Act in practices , monitoring the spread of influenza, surfacing novel insights about pediatric mental health , and synthesizing the first national map of antibiotic resistance.

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Universities Are Missing Out on an Explosive Growth Sector: Their Own

Harvard Business Review

See comments by Clayton Christensen and Mark Cuban ). The National Association of College and University Business Officers Study on Endowments reveals that endowments are performing enviably — with returns of near 12% in 2013. There are examples of universities forging ahead. They’re quite good at it, on the whole.