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Leading Management Principles of the World’s Top Shipbuilders

Epicflow

HHI had delivered more than 2,150 ships to 320 shipowners in 51 countries as of 2017. Credit: HHI’s Integrated Report 2017 According to the HHI Integrated Report 2017 , the shipping industry was severely impacted by the global recession and confronted stagnation. billion in revenue by 2022.

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How Authority and Decision-Making Differ Across Cultures

Harvard Business

Erin Meyer, professor at INSEAD, discusses management hierarchy and decision-making across cultures. Sometimes top-down cultures still have strong consensus-driven decision-making styles — and the other way around. Meyer helps break down and map these factors so that managers working across cultures can adapt.

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One Reason Mergers Fail: The Two Cultures Aren’t Compatible

Harvard Business

Amazon’s 2017 acquisition of Whole Foods was met with a lot of fanfare. The two companies may have seen value in capitalizing on each other’s strengths, but they failed to investigate their cultural compatibility beforehand. When tight and loose cultures merge, there is a good chance that they will clash.

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Rebranding ADEI for the Culture Wars

UPD Consulting

Is ADEI just the latest victim of America’s ever-expanding culture war? One 2017 study found that teams with ample gender, age, and geographical diversity outperformed individual decision making 87 percent of the time, compared with a 58 percent rate by all-male teams of similar age and geographic distribution. Yes, no doubt.

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How Netflix’s Content Strategy Is Reshaping Movie Culture

Harvard Business

As Netflix and other streaming platforms continue to grow and emphasize exclusive content, we risk losing pieces of our cultural memory — forgetting about some of the classic films that define a generation. And we appreciate that Netflix is reportedly spending $6 billion on original content in 2017.

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Big Companies Are Embracing Analytics, But Most Still Don’t Have a Data-Driven Culture

Harvard Business

That number is half again higher than in the 2017 survey, which suggests that more value is being achieved as companies grow familiar with the technologies. Another important and continuing issue is the slow speed with which these established firms make the shift to a data-driven culture. relate to each other.

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Voices from the January-February 2017 Issue

Harvard Business

For more, see the January-February 2017 issue. Download this podcast.