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Career Opportunities After Pursuing an MBA

Strategy Driven

An MBA holder can become a Financial Analyst, Business Consultant, Leadership Trainer, or Corporate Strategist. According to Forbes, the job market for MBA graduates is strong, with more employers looking to hire those with an MBA. MBAs can find positions as consultants, project managers, and analysts in the technology space.

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Different Types of Managers: Which one are you?

HR Digest

This is the lose structural framework, but one can classify managers based on their leadership styles too. Too much hovering and guidance lead to a feeling of being overwhelmed, and people tend to give up faster under such leadership. An explanation of the structural format of management and managers. Team Leaders.

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4 Questions to Ask to Select the Best Executive Search Firm

Great Leadership By Dan

Put it this way: just because an agency placed a technical Project Manager at a software company doesn’t mean they can find the right Chief Financial Officer or Director of Marketing in the same industry. First, the roles (or needs) of those previous searches may have been significantly different from yours.

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A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Harvard Business Review

On June 25, 2018, Facebook lost market capitalization of more than $100 billion in just two hours of trading after it announced its quarterly performance, despite exceeding analysts’ earnings forecasts. Based on these insights, we now propose a new blueprint for financial reporting of digital companies. What caused this slump?

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Here’s Why Strategy Chiefs Succeed or Fail

Harvard Business Review

Consider Staples, the office-supplies retailer, which had tumbled from being the market leader to being a third of the new leader’s size by 1992. So founder and CEO Tom Stemberg hired John Wilson as head of strategy and chief financial officer. ” Wilson was exactly what the business needed.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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The Most Important Negotiation in Your Life

Harvard Business Review

At the start of my leadership development programs, I ask people for examples of "negotiating with yourself." Soon, the list of topics grows more serious, and turns to work: My plate is completely full, but my boss just asked me to start a new project. The Big Four are: The Chief Executive Officer: your inner Dreamer.