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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

But when they do leave, they will take with them years of institutional knowledge acquired on the job. Despite the media coverage of Boomers and how a tidal wave of retirements could impact business, many senior managers are kicking the can down the road, putting off the job of creating a system and process for capturing knowledge.

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The MBA M-Prize's Winning Hack

Harvard Business Review

Submitted by two HBS students, David Roth and Alka Tandon, it's called Late Night Pizza: Extending Hackathons Beyond Technology. The runners-up ideas were Organization Structure as Free Market , submitted by an IMD team, and Stopping Incremental Change and Fostering Bold Moves , from a LBS team.).

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Case Study: Will Our Chinese Partner Copy Our Technology?

Harvard Business Review

While Blue Sky is an SOE, I think they really want to differentiate themselves, and they're willing to use a lot of our technology.". The only person not applauding was Wang Xiguo, the engineer who had led the development of Prime's power train technology. He had led a team that created several prototypes for Apex.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

Firms with the most ethnically diverse executive teams were 33% more likely to outperform their peers on profitability, and those with executive-level gender diversity worldwide had a 21% likelihood of outperforming their industry competitors. Others wanted power in order to bring out the best in their teams and foster an inclusive culture.

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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

Like rungs on a ladder, each phase builds on the next, so it’s important that you consider each step as you create your knowledge retention program. Keeping this a low priority could lead to a great deal of deep, tacit knowledge walking out the door, maybe for good. These steps are outlined in Surviving the Baby Boomer Exodus.

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How Corporate HQ Can Get More from Innovation Outposts

Harvard Business Review

Setting up innovation outposts in global technology clusters, such as Silicon Valley, Boston, and Tel Aviv, is highly popular among Fortune 500 corporations. There were no processes and systems in place to integrate the outpost team with the company HQ and the rest of the organization. And, indeed, that is what happened.

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How to Bring in a New CEO for Your Startup

Harvard Business Review

The right replacement CEO will complement the existing leadership team’s skill sets and have experience in scaling and managing a company through the startup’s upcoming stages of growth. Facilitate close connections between the founder, the new CEO, and the team. Ensure knowledge capture and transfer.

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