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Serving on Boards Helps Executives Get Promoted

Harvard Business Review

This question was at the heart of a recent study we conducted that is forthcoming at the Academy of Management Journal. On a board you’re together a lot, and you’re working on problems together and you have a shared fiduciary duty, so it creates very tight bonds of friendship.” ” Similarly, Sempra CEO Debra L.

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Should You Share a Room on a Business Trip?

Harvard Business Review

The kind of bonding that I inadvertently experienced may be more frequent these days as the byproduct of a corporate mindset reshaped by Great Recession-driven austerity practices — among them requiring employees to share rooms. When senior management walks the talk, a room-sharing policy is more palatable.

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Is Your Business Biased Against Innovation?

Strategy Driven

Yet for the small handful of companies that have managed to drive growth consistently – even through tough times – the payoff is great. In Discovery-Driven Growth , Rita McGrath and Ian MacMillan challenge what you thought you knew about managing growth. How do they do it? How can the doctor get that done?