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How Our Company Connected Our Strategy to Sustainability Goals

Harvard Business

The company I lead, Ingersoll Rand, is a 146-year-old organization that over the past few years integrated sustainability and business strategy to anticipate and address major global trends, most prominently climate change. The Gap Between Strategy and Execution. While this can be disheartening, it doesn’t have to be this way.

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The 2016 M&A Report

BCG

Report Tuesday, August 30, 2016. In the accompanying articles that make up this year’s report, we explore the success of “portfolio masters”—companies that consistently reshape their corporate portfolios, using both acquisitions and divestitures as an essential component of their strategy. (We

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The Best Companies Know How to Balance Strategy and Purpose

Harvard Business

Before the iPhone was introduced, in 2007, Nokia was the dominant mobile phone maker with a clearly stated purpose — “Connecting people” — and an aggressive strategy for sustaining market dominance. Nokia was so immersed in executing its strategy that it lost sight of its purpose. Insight Center.

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2016 Top 10 U.S. MBA programs for Management Consulting

Management Consulted

With that in mind, we compiled the 2016 Top 10 U.S In contrast, this year 28 graduates accepted offers from Bain, 26 from BCG, 20 from Deloitte, and an additional 18 went to PwC/Strategy& The average starting base salary for a Kellogg 2015 grad entering consulting was over $133,000, with an average signing bonus of over $27,000.

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Roubini Sees "Mother of All Asset Bubbles", But Claims Bubble Will Not Burst Until 2016

MishTalk

Roubini says we are in the "mother of all asset bubbles" but it''s going to get even bigger, not popping until 2016. Link if above video does not play: Roubini: We''re in an asset bubble and it won''t pop until 2016 We’re currently in the mid-late stretch of this boom, “so next year we’ll see economic growth and easy money.

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Is Behavioral Economics Used in Business?

Steve Shu Consulting

One key observation I’ve had is that certain companies can have different strategies for implementing behavioral economics. I wrote a book, Inside Nudging: Implementing Behavioral Science Initiatives in 2016, mostly to help bridge the gap between science and the application in business.

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Leading Management Principles of the World’s Top Shipbuilders

Epicflow

This is almost 10% higher than in 2016. The lesson we can learn from MHI is to create an environment conducive to innovative practices, which means communicating the company’s goals and strategies to pursue them. Due to poor project performance, $99 million is wasted for every $1 billion invested.