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What’s Driving Superstar Companies, Industries, and Cities

Harvard Business

The debate about superstar firms and superstar effects has been intensifying, partly in response to the rapid growth of global US tech companies. To analyze the superstar dynamics of firms, our metric was economic profit, a measure of a firm’s profit above and beyond opportunity cost. and Chinese tech firms.

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A Hands-Off Approach to Open Innovation Doesn’t Work

Harvard Business

For many business leaders — 85%, according to a recent Accenture survey — such open innovation is critical to their strategic plans. In particular, large companies want to partner with small firms that have developed advanced, game-changing technologies. Hardly an encouraging finding.

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How to Hand Off an Innovation Project from One Team to Another

Harvard Business

Nearly every business leader I meet fears being overcome by tech-savvy upstarts. That fear drives their companies to invest millions into coming up with breakthrough innovations. If innovation projects are going to succeed, they’ll need to survive a handoff from an innovation team to an execution team.

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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business

CEOs should actively manage five specific tensions in today’s complex global business environment: Disruptive innovation versus leveraging the company’s core strengths. At the strategic level, picking a slightly better option can create tremendous value. Pick the slightly worse one and the consequences can be far reaching.

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What 11 CEOs Have Learned About Championing Diversity

Harvard Business

Diversity can boost innovation and employee engagement , and companies with greater gender and racial diversity financially outperform their peers. created a program called Women and Opportunity that aims to develop women for future leadership roles at Gap. And many diversity programs fail. I chose eleven CEOs: Art Peck (Gap Inc.,

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2016 Top 10 U.S. MBA programs for Management Consulting

Management Consulted

In fact, every student is required to come up with a personal leadership development program. MBA programs should you apply to if you want the best inroads to consulting? With that in mind, we compiled the 2016 Top 10 U.S MBA programs for Management Consulting – and the results may surprise you. Buckle up; here we go!

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Why the Millions We Spend on Employee Engagement Buy Us So Little

Harvard Business

The executives included heads of HR, innovation, IT, and diversity, and they represented a range of industries and sectors (tech, manufacturing, retail, professional services, education, startups, and others). times as often in Forbes’s list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies, 4.4 How is that possible?