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How Corporate HQ Can Get More from Innovation Outposts

Harvard Business Review

So, even if the outposts manage to absorb local value they usually fail to propagate it back to the organization, which means they fail on the ultimate reason for their existence. Unhindered, they quickly amassed valuable social capital through an array of personal and professional relationships, as well as local intelligence and insights.

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With New York Schools Appointment, Bloomberg Did it His Way

Harvard Business Review

Black has no management experience in education — her entire career has been spent in magazine publishing — and her contact with the public school system in New York has been very limited. The contretemps over this appointment brings to mind three classic management issues, and research about them that is too often ignored.