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What Tomorrow's Leaders Are Learning in Africa Right Now

Harvard Business Review

Like Samsung, we have found it critical to establish leadership in home markets first, we place a similar importance on mixing local and global talent, and we faced the same cultural integration challenges. These include forging new business strategies, marketing new products, and developing African growth strategies.

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Your C-Suite Needs a Chief Data Officer

Harvard Business Review

Part of his winning formula was in functional centralization, appointing the company's first Chief Marketing Officer — in function if not in name. Gerstner, Jr. showed the world that elephants can dance by turning around IBM, a mammoth if ever there was one.

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Getting Smarter about Google's "Brain Drain"

Harvard Business Review

Just yesterday, on the front page of the New York Times , came a report about how "low-level engineers, product managers and prominent managers" from the executive ranks are leaving the company for high-profile companies such as Facebook as well as venture-funded startups of the sort that dot the technology landscape.