Harvard Business

MAY 2, 2017

Known as the “ Oscar Curse ,” Best Actress award recipients are more likely to file for divorce than are their nominated counterparts or Best Actor winners. Sandra Bullock, Julie Andrews, Joan Crawford, Bette Davis, Halle Berry, Emma Thompson, and Kate Winslet all share this experience. According to U.S.

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Brimstone Consulting

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Earlier this year, we shared a list of 31 books on leadership and change. Comprised of books we have found helpful in our careers and ones we often recommend to leaders, the list included recent publications and ones that have stood the test of time. The following list includes books published in 2021 (and one in 2020). 8 Insightful New Reads.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 19, 2017

Ask any sports fan about their favorite team and they will usually spend half the time either cursing or extolling the manager. In fact, it matters as much or more than a number of other factors associated with successful businesses, like technology adoption. The public remains divided over the value of good management.

Management 42

Management Survey Data Study 42

Harvard Business

JULY 31, 2017

Further, a clear pattern is emerging: The bolder the digital strategy, the more likely the company is to have a successful digital transformation. Besides the average, however, we also witness in each sector a large spread among firms in terms of their ability to sustain growth and generate a return from their digital investments.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 28, 2017

And AI success stories are becoming more numerous and diverse, from Amazon reaping operational efficiencies using its AI-powered Kiva warehouse robots, to GE keeping its industrial equipment running by leveraging AI for predictive maintenance. Photo by Aaron Burson. Don’t believe the hype: Not every business is using AI… yet.

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MishTalk

APRIL 9, 2015

the big reason might well be what plenty of analysts over the years have described as “the curse of oil.” Here''s an interesting opinion article on MarketWatch: Sanctions, drop in oil price best things that ever happened to Russia. A round of punitive sanctions designed to cripple the economy. A collapse in the price of its key commodity.

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Industry Productivity Energy Education 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Last February Lee was charged on five counts: bribery, illegally transferring assets overseas, embezzlement, concealing criminal proceeds, and perjury, which are seemingly unrelated to one another but all point to one event: the succession of control over Samsung. The other is related to a more fundamental factor.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

It is not too late for incumbents to reverse the digital curse and re-create a more profitable growth path if they are willing and able to invest more in digital than their peers and take the offensive by reshuffling their activity portfolios and beefing up remaining activities with new business models. joshua sortino/unsplash.

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Industry McKinsey Research Automotive 28

Harvard Business

AUGUST 19, 2016

Over the past year I’ve watched a group of 50 criminals, hard core drug addicts and homeless people start three highly successful companies. Laura Schneider for HBR. I’ve spent much of my career teaching people how to have “crucial conversations.” I learned this in a surprising way. So how do they do it?

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Martinka Consulting

JULY 27, 2016

In order to be successful, your strongest skills must match the precise needs of a specific business. The Internet is the greatest blessing and curse for anyone who wants to buy a business. Guest Column: I have been involved in buying and selling business for more than twenty years as an owner-operator, advisor and investor.

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Sales Operations Methodologies Financial 40

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Nearly one in five American adults suffers from a form of mental illness. Suicide rates are at an all-time high, 115 people die daily from opioid abuse, and one in eight Americans over 12 years’ old take an antidepressant every day. counties are without a single psychiatrist within their borders. Insight Center. The Future of Health Care.

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Tools Insurance Insurance Data 38

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

It’s the “paradox of expertise”: The more closely you’ve looked at an industry, the more successful you’ve been in a company or a profession, the harder it can be to see new patterns, prospects, and possibilities. The new CEO quickly realized the product’s ubiquity was both a blessing and a curse.

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Seth Godin Blog

JUNE 5, 2013

"Oh, thats just a hack someone put together.". The sophisticates. Q&A: Purple Cows and commodities. Colors or numbers? Words are hooks, words are levers. Mumbo vs. Jumbo. Death and Taxes, 2014. The opposite of anxiety. Stoogecraft. The fork in the road offers only two difficulties. August 2013. April 2013. March 2013. February 2013. January 2013.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 3, 2016

Matthew Shilvock, the company’s new General Director, described this drive for perfection as, “our blessing in allowing us to produce moments of exquisite theater, and our curse in terms of not giving us the flexibility to adapt quickly.” This night the entertainment would be opera … of a sort.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 27, 2017

The question: Are actions that lead to professional success viewed less favorably in the heterosexual marriage market? We publish a lot of articles based on new research (you may have noticed). I’ve summarized six below, including one where the office is actually a tennis court. Yet women weren’t advancing and men were.

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Research Methodologies Analysis Travel 14

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Can that tactic ever prove successful, either in politics or business? In a series of conversations leading up to the U.S. In a series of conversations leading up to the U.S. SIMPSON: Hillary Clinton triggered an avalanche of criticism by saying “you could put half of Trump’s supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables.”

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