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Germany’s Midsize Manufacturers Outperform Its Industrial Giants

Harvard Business

Most of these companies are private and don’t publish their balance sheets. This level of dedication to their mostly B2B customers demands especially strong investment in innovations and R&D. The company also looks outward for global management development and recruits and deploys up-and-coming managers abroad.

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What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?

Harvard Business

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. Consider the case of one B2B supplier that wanted to figure out what made some salespeople top performers. Vincent Tsui for HBR.