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How to Get Your Messages Retweeted

Arvind Malhotra, a T.W. Lewis Scholar and associate professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at the Kinan-Flagler Business School, Claudia Kubowicz Malhotra, a clinical assistant professor of marketing at the Kenan-Flagler Business School and Alan See, a vice president of marketing at the Berry Network focus on the marketing communication between companies and their followers on twitter in “How to Get Your Messages Retweeted.”
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First, Let’s Fire All the Managers

Gary Hamel, a visiting professor at London Business School and the director of the Management Innovation talks about quite an interesting concept – companies without managers. This article is based on a Self Managed company. With some brilliant and thought provoking messages – this article is a good read.
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How to Lead During a Crisis: Lessons from the Rescue of the Chilean Miners

In this article, Michael Useem, Rodrigo Jordan, and Matko Koljatic, present 12 key crisis leadership principles drawn from their extensive research on the recent Chilean mine cave-in crisis management. Their study focuses on the highest impact leadership decisions made by the leader of the group, Laurence Golborne, Chile’s mining minister.
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How Great Companies Think Differently

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, a Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School believes that the traditional objective of business, which is profit-making, doesn’t reflect the way how great companies work toward success. Through her research on the most successful companies situated across more than 20 countries on 4 continents, she proves that an institutional logic lies behind the successful practices of great companies.
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Making Change Happen, and Making It Stick

It is said that the only thing constant about life is change. However, in the present context it would be more appropriate to say that the only thing constant about life is rapid change. We are living in a disruptive age where new technologies and other developments bring significant changes to our lives every few years. Business leaders are hardest hit as they cannot even dream of settling down into a comfortable groove because if they do so, it won’t take long for a competitor to copy their solutions and offer it cheaply or come out with a much improved alternative.
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Getting It Done: New Roles for Senior Executives

The authors, Thomas M. Hout, vice president of the Boston Consulting Group and John C. Carter, principal of Product Development Consulting, define new managerial roles for senior executives functioning at top level in their well-researched article ‘Getting It Done: New Roles for Senior Executives’ published in the Harvard Business Review. They coin a term ‘senior executive activism’ to refer the essential quality required by senior executives that enable them to withstand increased market competition while they are spurring successful process reengineering efforts in their organizations.
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The Age of the Consumer Innovator

Eric von Hippel, professor of technological innovation at MIT Sloan School of Management; Susumu Ogawa, professor of marketing at Kobe University, Japan; and Jeroen P. J. De Jong, assistant professor at RSM Erasmus University, the Netherlands discuss in this article a new innovation paradigm where consumers play a crucial role as innovators. Major implications of this new consumer-centered innovation paradigm for consumers, entrepreneurs and existing businesses are also discussed in detail.
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Are You Ready For the Era of ‘Big Data’?

Brad Brown, a director in McKinsey’s New York Office; Michael Chui, a senior fellow with the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) and James Manyika, a director of MGI, question the readiness of organizations to welcome the era of ‘Big Data in this McKinsey article. They categorically state that in the era of big data, the future belongs to only those companies that collect more quality data and use it effectively for competitive advantage.
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Is Your Company Ready for Open Innovation?

In article, Ulrich Lichtenthaler, Martin Hoegl, and Miriam Muethel discuss the importance of achieving potential transformation of employee attitudes in order to implement a successful open innovation strategy in an organization.
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The Art and Science of Finding the Right CEO

A.G. Lafley, the former chairman and CEO of Procter & Gamble and Noel M. Tichy, a professor and the director of the Global Citizenship Initiative at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan explains the art and science of finding the right CEO in this recently published Harvard Business Review. This article discusses some of the leadership development practices that A.G. Lafley had undertaken while he was the CEO at Procter & Gamble.
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