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Crisis Management: How Did the Financial Services Industry Fare During 2020?

Clarity Consultants

In 2020, the financial services industry had to put its crisis management plans into action. As the year went on, mandates changed, and customer expectations shifted, making continuous change part of the ongoing paradigm throughout the rest of the year. Re-Opening Plans Were Formed Early in the Pandemic.

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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.

Finance 87
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Mergers & Acquisitions: The Importance of Creating a Shared Culture

Organizational Talent Consulting

The two cultures must harmonize to achieve the desired financial goals of the new organization and avoid a clash. Local culture is learned at the beginning stages of childhood and reinforced by local social, spiritual, economic, and education systems. Local culture is held deeply and typically changes slowly over generations.

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The One Type of Leader Who Can Turn Around a Failing School

Harvard Business

We interviewed these 411 leaders, as well as those who work for them, analyzed their education, background, and experience and recorded their actions and impact using 64 investment variables and 24 performance measures over seven years. Academies have devolved decision-making powers enabling them to bypass local government.)

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Getting Buy-In for Predictive Analytics in Health Care

Harvard Business

Any group of change agents should include a subset of well-respected clinicians or other thought leaders in the organization. These individuals should actively reach out to promote the tool, demonstrating its use and educating people about its expected benefits. At one leading public hospital in the Southern U.S., One large U.S.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

For the contracts that remain, and also consulting contracts that are typically of shorter duration, there should be an explicit target return on investment, and the contractor should bear some financial risk for achieving that return. As the U.S.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business

A recent study of VC firms found that more-diverse teams had higher financial returns than their homogenous counterparts. In order to advance from first-level management toward senior leadership, the women in my sample needed to have access to managing people, critical negotiations, new businesses ventures, and external client relations.