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Diverse Boards Are More Innovative

The Horizons Tracker

However, the research also highlights the significance of diverse educational, industrial, and organizational backgrounds among managers and board members in fostering innovation in research and development (R&D), thereby generating both economic and social value.

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The Increasing Allure Of The Pharma Industry For Top Tech Talent

The Horizons Tracker

The coronavirus pandemic has thrust the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries into the limelight like never before. The analysis found that healthcare and pharma are neck and neck with the technology sector in terms of the area people would consider moving to, with both easily beating sectors such as finance and telecoms.

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Social Class In The C-Suite

The Horizons Tracker

The potential for social mobility was far from even across different industries, however, with sectors like finance, real estate, and insurance scoring particularly poorly. “We argue that CEOs’ social class can only be understood when considering both family background and the current resources (income and education) at their disposal.”

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How Big Data Brings Marketing and Finance Together

Harvard Business Review

Rajamannar involved finance early. To spearhead analytic efforts, he assigned a finance person – who was already embedded in marketing – to create an ROI evaluation framework and integrated her deeper into the marketing function. MasterCard had always been a data-driven organization. Inside Intel. The result has been transformational.

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Deep questions: What diving teaches us about uncertainty and risk

Chartered Management Institute

In all sectors, tensions exist between competing pressures such as resources, finance, time and workload. Please login to the left to confirm your registration and access the article. The competitive landscape tends to reward those who are prepared to push them to the limit.

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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

Value: The Four Cornerstones of Corporate Finance by Tim Koller. While you can find numerous books focused on the topic of corporate finance, few offer the type of information managers need to help them make important decisions day in and day out. Discusses the four foundational principles of corporate finance.

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Challenging the Next Generation of Business Leaders

Coaching Tip

Even if the government had the deep pockets to finance our recovery, it’s a national shame that Washington, D.C. Management’s training and development responsibility is to cultivate within the workplace an environment which lends itself to creativity, dreams, and collective spirit larger than the sum of its paychecks and mechanical parts. .