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Mergers & Acquisitions: The Importance of Creating a Shared Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

Usually, due diligence is conducted by lawyers and experts in finance or accounting rather than experts in understanding and diagnosing culture. Also, as momentum builds, more people become involved, and it becomes more visible and harder to stop. Lack of cultural due diligence is often a problem. Don’t walk away. & Mirvis, P.

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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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Research: Could Machine Learning Help Companies Select Better Board Directors?

Harvard Business

Since the mandate of the board is to represent shareholders’ interests, shareholder votes stand out as a natural performance metric. corporations between 2000 and 2011. The second challenge we face is that we only have that measure of director performance for directors who are actually selected to join the board.

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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. They’ve lived through tumultuous times before and the status quo has always returned.

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Transformational Leadership: Changing Culture to Fuel Financial Success

Organizational Talent Consulting

For example, a hierarchical corporate culture type is proven to decrease an organization's ability to innovate (Cameron & Quinn, 2011). Just as some organizational culture characteristics can support these qualities, others can also inhibit these qualities. The idea of organizational culture is abstract and often not well understood.

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Subscription Businesses Are Booming. Here’s How to Value Them

Harvard Business

subscribers in 2017, and the industry as a whole has been growing at 200% annually since 2011. Likewise, what is the right set of metrics that company executives should use to manage their subscription businesses in order to hold themselves fully accountable to their stakeholders? that aggregate sales in the U.S.

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Organizational Fitness for Growth: Five Insights for CEOs

Kates Kesler

CEO Frans van Houten began an aggressive change process in 2011 to move power back to the regional business units. Nearly every function from marketing to human resources and finance was replicated at each level: Enterprise functions and infrastructure. Geographic Zones (consolidated P&L, plus infrastructure).

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