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Former fashion jewelry saleswoman Rebecca Gonzales and former Chief Executive Officer Ron Johnson have one thing in common: J.C. Penney Co. no longer employs either.
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Check out these new, and forthcoming books from HBR Press: Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works by A.G. Lafley, Roger L. Martin Strategy is not complex. But it is hard. It's hard because it forces people and organizations to make specific choices about their future — something that doesn't happen in most companies. Now two of today's best-known business thinkers — A.G. Lafley and Roger Martin —...
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Toyota Motor Corp.’s outside advisers on quality have a free hand examining U.S. operations and won’t be “window dressing” as the automaker works to rebound from record recalls, the panel’s chief said.
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HBR's editors have compiled a list of some of our — and your — favorite of the nearly 2000 blog posts we published in 2012. As usual, the topics that most preoccupied our authors and readers reflected our shared anxieties: the pressures exerted on our businesses by technology and the global economy — no end to economic uncertainty, the need to make sense of vast amounts of data,...
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Toyota Motor Corp. is resuming sales of its 2010 Lexus GX 460 sport-utility vehicle after a recall because stability controls failed to engage fast enough.
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Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his cabinet are wrestling with how to handle the proposed takeover of Calgary-based Nexen Inc. by China’s Cnooc Ltd. as some investors anticipate Canada will block the bid.
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Matt Haltom, deputy general counsel for Sally Beauty Holdings, a Denton (Tex.) distributor of beauty supplies, has gone to plenty of legal conferences during his 15-year career. His pet peeve: the boring, lecture-style formats that limit attendees from getting past the small-talk with speakers or audience members to meat- and-potatoes discussions. So he was receptive when an executive from conference organizer Consero Group cold-called him with an offer to join 70 of his peers at a Boca Raton (Fla.) resort for a forum structured around small-group discussions on hot topics in corporate law (think disclosure requirements and employee social media policies). One sweetener: Haltom would only have to pay for travel and accommodations.
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Delegation is a necessary survival skill for senior executives. But when executives delegate their discovery-related innovation tasks, the odds of...
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Research In Motion Ltd.’s mishandled debut of its BlackBerry PlayBook has hurt more than just sales of the tablet. It may be turning off possible buyers of the company.
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Clayton Christensen's book How Will You Measure Your Life has turned into a well-deserved best seller. Beyond drawing individual lessons...
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