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What If Companies Managed People as Carefully as They Manage Money?

Harvard Business

Today’s executives spend a lot of time managing the balance sheet, despite the fact that it doesn’t represent their company’s scarcest resource. According to Bain’s Macro Trends Group, the global supply of capital stands at nearly 10 times global GDP. Vincent Tsui for HBR. There you have it.

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How Marketers Can Connect Profit and Purpose

Harvard Business

We found widespread agreement that having great products and services and being a “good corporate citizen” are table stakes in a world of empowered citizens and consumers. Melissa Waters, CMO of Lyft, says “Any customer these days is asking for transparency on what a company stands for and why they operate.

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Help Your Team Achieve Work-Life Balance — Even When You Can’t

Harvard Business

It wasn’t until I moved to Paris in 1997 to become Finance Manager for Disney Consumer Products Europe, Middle East, and Africa that I experienced someone setting a non-negotiable boundary for herself. You can verbally communicate this with your team, role model it, and create organizational operating principles around it.