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The Name Of The CEO Influences Their Career

The Horizons Tracker

The study also shows that last name favorability doesn’t have anything to do with a CEO’s business decisions, how well they communicate about the company, or how the company’s finances look. companies between 1999 and 2014. It also doesn’t link to CEOs being selfish.

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The Best Leadership Books of 2016

Leading Blog

64 Shots : Leadership in a Crazy World by Kevin Roberts In 64 Shots, Roberts draws on the biggest ideas, toughest experiences and greatest influences of his life to present 16X4 stripped down, straight-forward and instantly-absorbable insights on how to bring order to the chaos of business and life. Best Leadership Books of 2014.

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6 Proven Tactics to Design an Effective Executive Healthcare Resume

Strategy Driven

Your healthcare executive resume should outline how you effectively influence key decision makers, cultivate vendor relationships, possess sharp negotiation skills and manage people to get the right products to market and kill stalled projects that are draining precious corporate resources. FREE StrategyDriven Trial Membership.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. One of LinkedIn’s 2017 ‘Top Voices’ among all Influencers. Michel Kripalani – President & CEO of Oceanhouse Media, an app development company, ranked by Inc 500 as one the Fastest Growing Private Companies in 2014. Former President, Dow Chemical USA.

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Navigating the Complexities of Doing Business in Russia

Harvard Business Review

For example, in 2014, at the onset of the sharp deterioration in U.S.-Russian For instance, a 2014 law mandates that the government must show preference for local manufacturers over foreign firms when granting public tenders, without regard to differences in quality. that could influence the economy (e.g.

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Research: Could Machine Learning Help Companies Select Better Board Directors?

Harvard Business Review

Institutional investors often are critical of CEOs’ influence over boards and have made efforts to help companies improve their governance. We found that firms tend to choose directors who are much more likely to be male, have a large network, have a lot of board experience, currently serve on more boards, and have a finance background.

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How Investors React When Companies Announce They’re Moving to a SaaS Business Model

Harvard Business Review

For example, in 2014 IDC estimated that more than one-quarter of enterprise applications would be offered with the SaaS model by 2018, up from one-sixth in 2013. For example, Adobe’s finance team estimated that the cost of running both models side by side would cost them twice as much as simply offering one of the models.