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Research: CEOs with Diverse Networks Create Higher Firm Value

Harvard Business Review

These connections had to be at least senior managers or higher positions to be considered. Our results should encourage shareholders to consider how diversity of the social networks of upper management and board members can add value to the firm, given the changing face of the workforce and increasing global competition.

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I Got My Strategy from Greenpeace

Harvard Business Review

But there our story deviates from the norm because our turnaround wasn't based on cost control, financial leverage, or manufacturing efficiencies. Starting in our biggest business — carpet tiles — our managers and staff have gone through the grinding process of identifying every single chemical in our products.