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Turnarounds and the Big Play | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

The means to that end is quickly slashing sku’s and product lines to reduce inventories. Familiar examples are spending more on advertising, introducing new products or line extensions, expanding distribution. In the case of struggling Nabob Foods, two significant innovations facilitated the turnaround. And guess what?

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A Culture of Excellence: An Interview with Melissa Strait

HR Digest

We’re focused on building a culture of innovation that enables good ideas to thrive at any level of the organization, not just at the top. As one of the world’s largest employers with workforce all across the globe, what’s Inspire Brands’ best practices during crisis to ensure productivity and transparency?

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The Global Rise of Female Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Consider three aspects: Reinvestment: In emerging markets, women reinvest a staggering 90 cents of every additional dollar of income in "human resources" — their families'' education, health, nutrition (compared, by the way, to 30-40% for men. Wal-Mart understands the power of women-led firms to innovate compelling products.

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What Connects Coca-Cola, Lego, In-N-Out, Intuit, and Nike? Focus.

In the CEO Afterlife

This can mean expanding product lines, entering new markets and geographies, line extending brands, acquiring new businesses, creating projects, and adding layers of management to manage the self-created complexity. With 60% of annual sales coming from innovative new products, it is clear that LEGO has not been idle.

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How to Take a Social Venture to Scale

Harvard Business Review

For a social entrepreneur with an innovative solution, the holy grail is scaling it —that is, taking it to a level where the new approach operates efficiently and effectively to achieve significant mitigation of a social problem. They are: Staffing. Perhaps more than anything else, this has been the key to PlayWorks' successful scaling.

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Expanding the Reach of Primary Care in Developing Countries

Harvard Business Review

How the most innovative providers are creating value. We interviewed leaders in 37 private for-profit and non-profit primary care programs identified in the Center for Health Market Innovations database and operating in over 25 developing countries.