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Is Your Company Actually Set Up to Support Your Strategy?

Harvard Business

For every company wrestling with evolutions in its strategy, success depends as much on matching the operating model to those evolutions as it does on the soundness of the strategy itself. But exactly how do today’s companies create or update an operating model to match adaptations or wholesale changes in strategy?

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Severe Weather Threatens Businesses. It’s Time to Measure and Disclose the Risks

Harvard Business

Research shows that abnormal weather disrupts the operating and financial performance of 70% of businesses worldwide. In the apparel sector, for instance, the unusually warm winter temperatures across Europe and the U.S. However, efficient risk management can only take place on the condition that the risks are defined.

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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business

Just look at Uber to understand the importance of diversity and product safety or at car manufacturers scrambling to develop a competitive advantage in electric cars as countries seek to decarbonize their economics and fight pollution. In both cases, social and environmental metrics matter for the business’s financial success.

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The 3 Essential Jobs That Most Retention Programs Ignore

Harvard Business

But over and over again in our three decades of experience as talent development and retention specialists, we’ve seen that companies consistently overlook half of them. These are jobs in R&D, technology, and other areas vital to a firm’s strategic direction, product development, and process efficiency.

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A Tool to Map Your Next Digital Initiative

Harvard Business

It includes changes in how an organization interacts with its customers, citizens, or patients; in operational processes; in business models; in supply chain relationships; and in how employees use information to generate insight. If those linkages cannot be developed, then those investments should not be pursued. Insight Center.

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An Agenda for the Future of Global Business

Harvard Business

In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. The effects of technology on humans depends on how we choose to develop and use it. For all of the uncertainty and anxiety in headlines today, the world is a much better place than it has ever been.

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Consulting Case Interviews at Non-Consulting Firms

Tom Spencer

As such, I’ve increasingly seen case interviews being used to recruit for corporate strategy roles in all sectors and business operation (“BizOps”) roles at startups. You will need to adopt the same logical, rigorous-but-efficient approach to solve a case for BCG as you will in a case interview for Uber or Canada Goose.