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It’s Time for Sustainability to Become a Core Part of MBA Programs

Harvard Business

Business schools must adapt their curricula in response to the increasing demand for professionals skilled in sustainability and climate change management. The curriculum should foster a common language between disciplines, such as sustainability and accounting, and include hands-on experiential learning.

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How Cloud Computing Is Changing Management

Harvard Business

That makes it imperative to start thinking about how management will be changed by the most impactful information technology of our time: cloud computing. What does it allow us to do differently, and how will that change the way we do things in the future?

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What Spinning Off a GE Business Taught Me About Managing Ultra-Fast Change

Harvard Business

Change management can be a test for any organization. Several studies by Towers Watson show that just 25% of change management initiatives are successful over the long term. Change management certainly tested us. Of course, the journey isn’t over. There simply is no finish line for culture.

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KPMG Consulting Interviews and Culture

Management Consulted

In the mid 1970s, as public opinion swayed toward greater accountability for the finance industry, Peat Marwick took steps to firm up controls on its accounting practice and increase transparency. Capabilities: Finance. Business Process Management. Change Management. Global Business Services. Human Resources.

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Doctors Feel Excluded from Health Care Value Efforts

Harvard Business

physicians in eight specialties, 100 health system finance officers, as well as 100 health system procurement officers — the people in charge of buying supplies for hospitals. By sidelining doctors, the health care industry has overlooked a key principle in change management — and undercut its own efforts.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business

They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions. Each had been employed for at least two years and had aspirations to move into executive management or senior leadership. This, of course, can be difficult or uncomfortable.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business

Companies in every industry can benefit from making more data and algorithm-based decisions in areas of internal operations and finance. Of course, traditional consultants and other providers of corporate advice are unlikely to disappear. It seems only logical that they would extend into corporate strategy and finance.