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Serving on Boards Helps Executives Get Promoted

Harvard Business Review

When you consider all of the retreats, travel, reading, meeting prep time, transactions, and committee meetings involved, it is a wonder anyone serves at all. ” Similarly, Sempra CEO Debra L. Yabuki, who was the COO of H&R Block Services Inc in 2003. Board service has always been very demanding.

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Case Study: Time for a Unified Campaign?

Harvard Business Review

Beatriz Soto greeted Fernando Ruiz, the COO of Alegre Hotels, as he stepped out of his taxi into the Cozumel sunshine. Palma Cay is Alegre's newest flagship hotel, and I think I can make it work with lower prices to the key travel agencies, tour operators, and online portals. Fernando assumed that was how the information had traveled.