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Board Governance Excellence: The Pinnacle of Organizational Success

N2Growth Blog

It’s the board’s prerogative to chart a strategic course, oversee the operational ambit, and instill a culture of accountability—morphing it into a cornerstone of organizational governance. It orchestrates the operational rhythm, supervises decision-making, and enforces accountability across the hierarchy.

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How Corporates Can Best Engage With Startups

The Horizons Tracker

The report discovered a number of core strategies used by large companies thus far: Challenges, competitions and hackathons – these kind of events have become a staple of open innovation, and a growing number of large companies have held competitions in recent years.

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The Case for Corporate Disobedience

Harvard Business Review

Like a startup, you have to get the market fit right, but you also have to fight the corporate systems at the same time, dealing with the rules, procedures, and approval processes that every big company has in place to support its strategy. By and large, corporate strategies and the internal rules they engender are good and useful.

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The Future Economy Project: Advice from Sustainability Experts

Harvard Business Review

The discussion with Michael Toffel and Rebecca Henderson of Harvard Business School, Tensie Whelan of NYU’s Stern School of Business, and Andrew Winston of Winston Eco-Strategies has been condensed and edited for clarity. HBR: Of the interviews, what jumped out at you? It’s a start.

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Are Uber and Facebook Turning Users into Lobbyists?

Harvard Business Review

Many of the companies inserting politics into their user experience operate popular social platforms themselves. Business-to-business companies selling to other enterprises are more susceptible to the conflicts of interest that can arise between customers.

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The Enemies of Data Security: Convenience and Collaboration

Harvard Business Review

Organizations that operate as a collection of independent business units have a different cultural problem relative to information security. The information security policy should be linked to a set of technical and operational standards based on the actual risks to the business and formulated by subject matter experts.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

The Business Tree : Growth Strategies and Tactics for Surviving and Thriving. Enron did not demand enough accountability, fairness, ethics and operational autonomy from its outside auditor. There was a conflict of interest in alliance with Enron…not objective enough. by Hank Moore. ’ Lawyers.