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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. A Sloan Management Review article (which I had the pleasure of working on) provides valuable context for Garvin’s most-read HBR articles.

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Why Aren’t Black Employees Getting More White-Collar Jobs?

Harvard Business

It offered a competitive salary and extensive training, and it could point to several minority leaders in management. When I joined the company, my branch sales manager — someone I considered a field office general — was black, as were many of my instructors. representation in non-management professionals.

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Three Areas for Action by Wealth Managers

BCG

For 14 years, BCG has conducted a proprietary benchmarking survey of wealth management providers from all over the world, running the spectrum from small boutiques to the world’s largest wealth managers—and covering multiple business models, from onshore to offshore and from banking to brokerage. See Exhibit 1.).

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How to Think Differently About a Flexible Workforce - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM CATALANT

Harvard Business

companies can’t fill their open positions, according to a McKinsey Global Institute study that found that analytical, engineering, and management roles are the hardest to fill. million from 2005 to 2015, a 67 percent jump. Winning in the future will require a rigorous approach to accessing and managing independent workers.

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Lessons Learned from a German EMBA

Tom Spencer

In the fall of 2015, after spending two years in a small town in the Ruhr Valley starting to learn German (I will appreciate Mark Twain’s perspective on the sprache so much better going forward), I moved to Frankfurt to begin my Executive MBA at the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management. Image Source: WallpaperUp ).

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Why CEOs Can’t Dance Redux

Rick Conlow

All lights were off except a spotlight on the presenting manager and the CEO’s reading light. to 17.9%, from 1980 to 2015. According to management studies, a key reason leaders derail is that they do not communicate well. hours a week on people management issues. This CEO sat up in the stands.

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Case for Gold vs. the Case for Treasuries; Is Bill Gross Talking His Book or Talking Reality?

MishTalk

Bill Gross, manager of The Pimco Total Return Fund, said on Wednesday that the global economy may be facing low policy rates for decades. Federal Reserve''s benchmark short-term borrowing rate - will rise by one percentage point by late 2015. Gross''s outlook on the level of rates is important because Pimco manages roughly $1.97