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Companies Need a New Approach to Investing This Election Year

Harvard Business Review

In any other election cycle, the predictable increase and decrease in uncertainty offers shrewd managers unique opportunities for operating, investment, and financing decisions.

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When to Change a Winning Strategy

Harvard Business Review

To succeed, therefore, managers have to learn when and how to abandon the strategies they have grown up with. Its story starts like many success stories do: An innovative concept coupled with a first-mover advantage, enabling a rapid physical expansion and generating increasing returns to scale.

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Five Myths of a CEO's First 100 Days

Harvard Business Review

An incoming CEO of an entertainment company, eager to secure first-mover advantage, instituted an ambitious growth strategy and set specific targets for managers. FACT : Before defining standards and evaluation criteria for others, new CEOs should first establish and communicate how they themselves will be evaluated.

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Structure Your Global Team for Innovation

Harvard Business Review

That's partly because they manage global projects like traditional ones. To get the most from dispersed innovation, managers need a different playbook. Here are three ways to set up and manage global innovation for success: 1. Assign oversight and support responsibility to a senior manager.

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Structure Your Global Team for Innovation

Harvard Business Review

That's partly because they manage global projects like traditional ones. To get the most from dispersed innovation, managers need a different playbook. Here are three ways to set up and manage global innovation for success: 1. Assign oversight and support responsibility to a senior manager.

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Why Family Businesses Come Roaring out of Recessions

Harvard Business Review

Some studies (see here or here ) have shown that during periods of economic growth, family-managed companies in the US actually perform better than professionally managed businesses. However, a rising tide lifts all boats; it’s the ebbing tide that reveals the truth. during the non-recession years to 1.9% during the recessions.

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Why We Shouldn’t Worry About the Declining Number of Public Companies

Harvard Business Review

Such acquisitions become more lucrative with rising first-mover advantages, pace of technological development, and network externality. The aggregate market capitalization of listed companies keeps increasing , unemployment remains manageable, and U.S. retains its leadership in technological progress.

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