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What Great Companies Know About Culture

Harvard Business Review

Among the top performers on the 2011 World's Best Multinational Companies list are culturally-strong technology companies such as Microsoft, NetApp, SAS, and Google. Competitiveness, customer loyalty, innovation, and productivity — while critical to daily operations — trailed behind with each under 20 percent.

Company 17
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The Rebirth of the CMO

Harvard Business Review

McKinsey’s DataMatics 2013 survey shows that companies that use customer analytics extensively are more than twice as likely to generate above-average profits as those that don’t. CMOs need to show the ROI of every pound spent on marketing and how it delivers against the bottom line.”. That bottom line sensibility is crucial.

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