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CSR: Collaborating with NPOs for Positive Social Impact

Tom Spencer

According to a Harvard study , around 90% of companies on the S&P 500 published a CSR report in 2019, compared to just 20% in 2011. Large companies now recognise that the environment and communities in which they operate can contribute significantly to their bottom line.

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Mergers & Acquisitions: The Importance of Creating a Shared Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

An organization’s culture reflects the various lessons it has learned through its history and incorporates the many behaviors and processes that have developed over time. UNDERSTANDING THE LOCAL CULTURAL CONTEXT Today many industries and organizations operate on a global scale. It is comparable to breathing. Don’t walk away.

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Social Media Platforms Can Be Built Around Quality, Not Scale

Harvard Business

” The modern landscape for newspapers and books resulted from centuries of evolution, but “new media” hasn’t yet developed such strong brands and categories. Technologists often discuss the problem of “ vanity metrics.” In journalism, for example, the pageview is a much-maligned metric.

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How Nokia Embraced the Emotional Side of Strategy

Harvard Business

Recall that Nokia dominated the mobile and smartphone markets in 2007-2008 when Apple launched the iPhone and Google the Android operating system. The new rivals revolutionized customer expectations, causing Nokia’s Symbian operating system to become outdated.

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How to Get Health Care Employees Onboard with Change

Harvard Business

In 2011, when I came to Centura Health in Colorado as President of its largest operating group (Mountains and North Denver Operating Group or MNDOG) and CEO of its flagship health organization, Saint Anthony Hospital, I saw a clear mandate for change. Together we developed an agenda for change and put it into action.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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Make Civility the Norm on Your Team

Harvard Business

In 2011 half said they were treated badly at least once a week — up from a quarter in 1998. Microsoft’s popular Precision Questioning class teaches participants to question their own ideas, develop approaches to healthy, constructive criticism, and act with emotional agility even in tense situations.