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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Operations Group Baring Private Equity. Former President, Dow Chemical USA. Former Operating Partner at Blackstone, Chief Human Resources Officer for Unilever. Paul Hill – Former Director of Mission Operations NASA. Former CEOs / Advisors.

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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

The first category is exogenous factors over which the business has little control: the growth of the markets into which it sells; the competitive intensity and thus the average profitability of the industry in which it operates; or the fragmentation of its industry and thus the scope for a growth-by-acquisition approach.

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How Target Is Taking Sustainable Products Mainstream

Harvard Business Review

The list of no-no ingredients is long — 1,600 chemicals tracked or regulated by NGOs and governments around the world. The company has made significant efforts to improve store operations with their impressive energy efficiency work and the purchase of more solar power than any entity in the U.S. besides the military.

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What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

This transformation took time to play out and involved both displacements of incumbents operating in outdated modes and the emergence of new “feeder” roles for those aspiring to the C-suite. In our own conversations with CFOs we consistently hear that their attempts to work strategically with HR are the most trying.

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How Boards Can Innovate

Harvard Business Review

The directors of Procter & Gamble, for instance, have established an Innovation and Technology committee; the board of specialty-chemical maker Clariant has done the same; and Pfizer has created a Science and Technology committee. Some boards have taken the principle further by forming their own innovation committee.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. Of the respondents, 72% said that climate change presents risks that could significantly impact their operations, revenue, or expenditures. ” Improving risk management. households spend 3% of annual electricity budgets on heating water to wash clothes.

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A Refresher on Discovery-Driven Planning

Harvard Business Review

As McGrath and MacMillan explained in a 2014 article, the idea started in the mid-1990s while reviewing the projects Rita tracks in her “flops” file — her collection of failed growth projects that had lost their parent company at least $50 million. ” Step 3: Define operational requirements.