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B-Schools Aren’t Bothering to Produce HR Experts

Harvard Business Review

In the 1980s, our organizations learned a great deal about how to improve productivity, quality, and costs from Japanese practices. Clearly, well-run operations and careful talent management went hand-in-glove. But if you look inside most companies today, you see little left of those talent practices. Let me explain.

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The Coherent Conglomerate

Harvard Business Review

Every successful conglomerate we know of — GE, Honeywell, Tata and United Technologies Corporation among them — has prospered by doing two things. There is no universal answer. True success comes to those that create a unique system of capabilities that fits the way they have decided to compete.

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