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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

They also generate $1 trillion as consumers and $361 billion in revenue as entrepreneurs, launching companies at 4x the rate of all woman-owned businesses. How did (or didn’t) managers play a role? Each had been employed for at least two years and had aspirations to move into executive management or senior leadership.

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How Corporate HQ Can Get More from Innovation Outposts

Harvard Business Review

So, even if the outposts manage to absorb local value they usually fail to propagate it back to the organization, which means they fail on the ultimate reason for their existence. Most of the absorbed knowledge — local contacts and relationships, intelligence, insights, and so on — left with them.