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CMI Hong Kong: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

Ann also met with Titania Woo of The Hong Kong Management Association to discuss partnership opportunities in the region. Furthermore, Ann was delighted to be able to personally present a number of Chartered Managers and Fellows with their certificates. Learn more here.

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Jim Collins, Meet Michael Porter

Harvard Business Review

In a series of books starting with Built to Last , Collins has addressed every manager's ultimate anxiety: performance. Each new book finds just the right question, the point of intersection between the timeless issue — performance — and the timely challenge managers are grappling with today. You have to make good choices.

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Michael Porter Tries to Set Davos Man on a New Path

Harvard Business Review

Well, if you're Michael Porter it isn't quite enough: I ran into him yesterday here at Davos and the first thing he said was something along the lines of, "You need more copies of HBR here." Italian Minister of Economy and Finance Giulio Tremonti has its own zingers about the move from the nation-state to globalization. Fair enough.

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What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

But what many economists generally gloss over is a notion that I will argue is highly complementary to market failures: management failures. Businesses and management experts, in contrast, tend take the opposite position. This is a reminder that serious students of market performance take market failures seriously.

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What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

But what many economists generally gloss over is a notion that I will argue is highly complementary to market failures: management failures. Businesses and management experts, in contrast, tend take the opposite position. This is a reminder that serious students of market performance take market failures seriously.

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Get Your Boss Out of Your Bedroom

Harvard Business Review

And I needed the kind of advice that only a manager can give. — has now put American employers in an untenable position. Not in the boardroom — but in the bedroom. Suffice it to say that my sexual partner and I weren't exactly holding hands across twin bathtubs. Actually, none of that has ever happened. Thank heavens.)

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Hospital Budget Systems Are Holding Back Innovation

Harvard Business Review

A second, more radical solution is to create budgets and authority for a service line or integrated practice unit (IPU) that manages a patient’s entire treatment for a high-volume medical condition. The IPU is an essential component of the value-based care model advocated by Harvard Business School’s Michael Porter.