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A Study of Hospitals Found That Outsider CEOs Make Their Organizations More Productive in the Long Run

Harvard Business

Prior studies have two common methodological limitations. We found that any type of leadership change will result in short-term adverse impacts on a firm’s operational efficiency, but outsider CEOs experienced a clear advantage in productivity gains. Sponsored by Accenture Strategy. Enter the U.S. hospital sector.

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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business

Whereas most business lists analyze companies by traditional metrics such as revenue or by subjective assessments such as “innovativeness,” our ranking evaluates the ability of leaders to strategically reposition the firm. We then narrowed the list to 18 finalists using three sets of metrics: New growth.

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How Blockchain Can Help Marketers Build Better Relationships with Their Customers

Harvard Business

Fraud verification via blockchain will also help verify the origin and methodology of marketers. This would defeat the denial of service attacks — a type of cyber-attack that involves recruiting bots to hit a website with millions of requests that causes the website to go down or to provide poor response time.