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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

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How effectively has the company adapted its legacy business to change and disruption, giving it new life? How have the firm’s growth, profits, and stock performance compared to a relevant benchmark (NASDAQ for a tech company, for example, or DAX Index for a German firm) during the transformation period? Financial performance.

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The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

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It’s worth noting that the companies and business units in my study were tracked between 2001 and 2007. If you look at this data for the period 1999 to 2007, the results are even more striking: These companies delivered shareholder returns of over 130 percent while the S&P delivered 0.6 It doesn’t happen overnight.