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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. It’s a forward-looking metric based on the classic momentum equation: current inventory x rate of inventory change. Inventory challenges aren’t new. In 2009, the financial crash left manufacturers with excess inventory when consumer buying power suddenly dropped.

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Does Effective Leadership Really Matter?

Organizational Talent Consulting

While working with a large Forbes Top 25 Private Company, we quantified the value of leadership using internal key business metrics and various cognitive and behavioral leader assessments. Great leaders achieve great results and create great company cultures. Journal of Management, 14(3), 453-464. Collins, J. HarperBusiness. Dhar, U., &

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CEOs Should Think Like Founders, Not Just Managers

Harvard Business

In 2001 the list of companies with the highest market caps was dominated by blue chips. ” Nadella challenged the company to see beyond its legacy products like Windows, invested heavily in new technologies like AI and SaaS, purchased LinkedIn to plug Microsoft services into the company’s social graph, and more.

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The Best-Performing Emerging Economies Emphasize Competition

Harvard Business

More than half that reached the top quintile in terms of economic profit generation between 2001 and 2005 had been knocked off their perch a decade later, in 2010-15. Moreover, when it comes to that metric beloved by stock market analysts and investors, total returns to shareholders, these firms also outperformed.

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Are You A Future-Ready Leader?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Selfless love is proven to enhance organizational com [link] mitment, productivity, job performance, and emotional well-being. It is when leaders use facts extracted from data and metrics to guide business decisions that support business goals rather than relying on experience, intuition, and stories alone. References Acemoglu, D., &

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business

The articles — “Competing on the Eight Dimensions of Quality” (1987) and “What Does ‘Product Quality’ Really Mean?” The central idea is that decision making is a process, not an event.

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Fixing Pharma’s Incentives Problem in the Wake of the U.S. Opioid Crisis

Harvard Business

. “The company charged wholesalers on average about $97 for a bottle of the 10-milligram pills, the smallest dosage, while the maximum strength, 80 milligrams, ran more than $630, according to 2001 sales data the company disclosed in litigation with the state of West Virginia.