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CMI Highlights

Chartered Management Institute

Investing in management and leadership skills also has knock-on effects for productivity, says Anthony Painter in FE News and The Paradise in response to Keir Starmer’s speech at UK Finance at the end of February. Experts suggest that more than half of the productivity gap between the UK and the USA can be attributed to poor management.

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More and More CEOs Are Taking Their Social Responsibility Seriously

Harvard Business Review

Ryan McVay/Getty Images. BlackRock is a giant, too, and finance is another industry where a small number of big players dominate. Big retailers and textile firms can make supply chains greener, safer, and less corrupt. Jana Partners, the activist hedge fund, isn’t known as a tree-hugging hippie sort of firm.

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The Mayo Clinic Model for Running a Value-Improvement Program

Harvard Business Review

One of the team’s central findings is that TDABC cannot be delegated to the finance function. The authors wish to acknowledge the contributions of Kay Thiemann, Kim Wright, Courtney Sherman, and Ryan Uitti to this work.

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