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The First Step to Fixing U.S. Manufacturing

Harvard Business

Past work by McKinsey found that inefficiencies in manufacturer-supplier interactions add up to roughly 5% of development, tooling, and product costs in the auto industry. Similar inefficiencies affect other industries as well, and they are likely to multiply as manufacturers seek to expand product portfolios and reduce turnaround times.

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We Interviewed 57 Female CEOs to Find Out How More Women Can Get to the Top

Harvard Business

But what if there were a way to make breakthrough progress by applying research-based tools and strategies to boost these numbers faster? They were four years older, when compared with benchmark data, before becoming CEO and brought more-diverse functional and industry experience to the position.

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Private Equity’s New Phase

Harvard Business

These buy outs shifted agency from owners to managers; “corporate raiders” worked with high-yield debt to fund these turnarounds. But for phase three (buy and transform), financial discipline is not an event, but a pattern; strategic clarity is not a direction, but a commitment; operational excellence is not a tool, but a mindset.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business

” (2008), it seems to me, is that it serves as an assessment tool that allows managers and executives to benchmark their organizations against other units and companies. But the main contribution of “Is Yours a Learning Organization?”