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Many CEOs Aren’t Breakthrough Innovators (and That’s OK)

Harvard Business Review

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development.

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Divest With Care

Harvard Business Review

Its corporate development group looked at upwards of 150 targets a year, and used a remarkably efficient screening process that rejected any potential acquisition that didn't make good sense strategically. The company did not overlook small deals if they contributed to the development of critical capabilities. GE-NBC/Universal.

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Rethinking the Function of Business Functions

Harvard Business Review

It has sophisticated functions that together manage user-generated content, the in-depth tracking of consumer buying behavior, and the innovation of new features based on the resulting insights. Their leaders are officers with titles like Chief Risk Officer, Chief Innovation Officer, and Chief Growth Officer. Frito-Lay Inc.,

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Why Your Company Culture Should Match Your Brand

Harvard Business Review

Ask people how to develop a good corporate culture, and most of them will immediately suggest offering generous employee benefits, like they do at Starbucks, or letting people dress casually, as Southwest Airlines does. How you operate on the inside should be inextricably linked with how you want to be perceived on the outside.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. Even outside of the tech sector, the employment of more software developers is associated with a greater increase in industry concentration, and this relationship appears to be causal. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images. Policymakers have noticed.