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Six Strategy Insights RIM's New CEO Can Use

Harvard Business Review

Heins, the new CEO of Research in Motion (RIM), has been plucked from the company's relatively obscure COO position to fill the giant shoes of two longtime co-CEOs as they depart at the behest of angry investors. Apple changed the nature of a smartphone from a corporate to a consumer device, and RIM has failed to reinvent itself accordingly.

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25 Years Ago I Coined the Phrase ?Triple Bottom Line.? Here?s Why It?s Time to Rethink It.

Harvard Business Review

This idea infused platforms like the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes (DJSI), influencing corporate accounting, stakeholder engagement and, increasingly, strategy. But the TBL wasn’t designed to be just an accounting tool.

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Corporations Weren’t Designed to Run on Code

Harvard Business Review

The strategy works, temporarily putting more cash on the positive side of the balance sheet. Its function is to grow companies by turning active economic activity into static bags of capital; in doing so, it has taken a liquid medium necessary for our economy’s circulation and frozen it in corporate accounts.