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Your Favorite HBR Articles of 2023

Harvard Business

They called out articles ranging from a 2001 classic article about managing your energy as a worker to a recent magazine piece on storytelling for leaders. And how specifically did it change the way you operate? We heard from readers in a variety of different industries, writing in from various corners of the world.

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The Next Supply-Chain Challenge Isn’t a Shortage — It’s Inventory Glut

Harvard Business

Electronics littered shelves in 2001 after the dot-com bubble burst. Inventory challenges aren’t new. In 2009, the financial crash left manufacturers with excess inventory when consumer buying power suddenly dropped. And now, the high-tech industry is feeling the weight of a volatile market that has led to excess component inventory.

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Did Ukraine Shoot Down Passenger Plane? They Did Once Before: SA Flight 1812 Erroneously Downed by Ukraine in 2001

MishTalk

The only other civilian airliner to have been shot down over Ukrainian airspace was the Siberian Airlines flight from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk in 2001. Sitka Pacific is an asset management firm whose goal is strong performance and low volatility, regardless of market direction. So we are talking some heavy duty weaponry here.

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Consultant Ninja: New Vault.com FAIL: Management Consulting Blog

Consultant Ninja

Management Consultant | Excel Jockey | Slide Monkey | Corporate Insurgent | One-Eyed Man in the Valley of the Blind Mckinsey | Bain | BCG | Booz | Oliver Wyman. The new Vault represents the first major redesign of the site since 2001. Management Consulting. skip to main | skip to sidebar. Consultant Ninja. New Vault.com FAIL.

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What 20 Years as a Remote Organization Has Taught Us About Managing Remote Teams

Harvard Business

Clarke painted a picture of how computers would change our way of life by the year 2001. Once clear, consistent outcomes are set, management conversations shift from exercises in delegation to problem-solving sessions. In his 1974 interview with ABC News , science fiction author Arthur C.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. The returns to society and the overall economy were equally impressive.

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More of Us Are Working in Big Bureaucratic Organizations than Ever Before

Harvard Business

Writing for the Harvard Business Review in 1988, Peter Drucker predicted that in 20 years the average organization would have slashed the number of management layers by half and shrunk its managerial ranks by two-thirds. Between 1983 and 2014, the number of managers, supervisors and support staff in the U.S. in 2001 to 16% in 2015.

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