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The Dirty Little Secret About Digitally Transforming Operations

Harvard Business

Insight Center. Operations in a Connected World. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Even today, our own research confirms that only 26% of major organizational transformations succeed.

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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business

Investment in AI is growing and is increasingly coming from organizations outside the tech space. And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance.

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The Mindset Your Company Needs to Grow Organically

Harvard Business

The problem is that many companies have the wrong “operating system” for organic growth. Insight Center. How to make your company more nimble and responsive. Topic Images/Getty Images. M&A is central to many companies’ growth strategies. But you can’t grow by acquisition alone.

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How We Closed the Gap Between Men’s and Women’s Retention Rates

Harvard Business

As we’ve studied our own progress at BCG, we have found that gender disparities in our senior cohorts are not completely explained by traditional workplace concerns, such as work-life balance, maternity leave , unequal pay , and differential ambitions. Many companies continue to struggle with advancing and retaining women.

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Why consulting?

Management Consulted

Half of the class was devoted to examining different models and learning the game theory behind strategic decision making; in the remainder of the class, we applied that knowledge and analyzed different industries. What we didn’t expect was the diversity of responses! It was a tight race, so we also awarded some runner ups.

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What Can Big Businesses Learn About Innovation from Social Entrepreneurs? - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM QATAR FOUNDATION

Harvard Business

Big businesses struggling in an era of rapid transformation can learn a lot from the experiences of social entrepreneurs finding and adapting innovative solutions in difficult contexts. WISH and WISE. Empower Bottom-up Solutions. “Maybe what you think is the best idea you’ve ever had actually isn’t.”

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What I Learned from Leading a Tunisian Ministry During the Arab Spring

Harvard Business

I was Dean of a leading business school in Paris and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the top mobile telecom operator in Tunisia when the Arab Spring broke out, turning the already troubled Middle East and North Africa upside down. Our team knew from the start we would be working in an extremely high turbulence environment.