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Being More Productive
Allen, David; Schwartz, Tony; McGinn, DanielArticle HBS-R1105D-EAllen, the author of the best seller Getting Things Done, and Schwartz, the author of the best seller Be Excellent at Anything and the CEO of The Energy Project, are two of the world's foremost authorities on increasing personal efficiency. Yet although they agree on much, their ideas on how to maximize the output of knowledge workers are fundamentally different. In this edited conversation with HBR, they discuss their own approaches and what the...Starting at €8.20
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The Leader's Calendar
Porter, Michael E.; Nohria, Nitin; Gentile, Tom; McGinn, Daniel; Higgins, SarahArticle HBS-R1804B-EChief executives have tremendous resources at their disposal, but they face an acute scarcity in one critical area: time. This package examines the unique challenges CEOs face in deciding how to allocate it. In "How CEOs Manage Time," Harvard Business School's Porter and Nohria describe an in-depth 12-year study in which they tracked what 27 large-company CEOs did every hour for 13 weeks, and then interviewed them--and hundreds of other CEOs--abo...Starting at €8.20
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Getting Beyond "Show Me the Money"
Zoltners, Andris A.; McGinn, DanielArticle HBS-R1504F-EFor more than three decades, Andris Zoltners, now an emeritus professor at Northwestern, has been studying the best ways to organize and pay salespeople. The pioneer of sales analytics, he is the founder of one of the world's largest sales consulting firms and the author of six books on sales management. In this interview, he shares some of his insights with HBR. Companies make several common mistakes with sales compensation, Zoltners notes: over...Starting at €8.20
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Developing Your Global Know-How
Russwurm, Siegfried; Hernandez, Luis; Chambers, Susan; Chung, Keumyong; McGinn, Daniel; Kuhn, Lothar; Geissler, CorneliaArticle HBS-R1103D-ELeadership and People ManagementFor up-and-coming executives, an overseas posting has long been a rite of passage, providing opportunities not available in their native countries and experience that can be invaluable to their companies both during the assignment and after their return home. How has the Great Recession affected this formula? HBR spoke with the top human resources executives at four multinationals about how their companies are adapting global assignments to meet ...Starting at €8.20
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Battling Back from Betrayal
McGinn, DanielArticle HBS-R1012M-ELeadership and People ManagementStephen Greer's Hong Kong-based scrap-metal-recycling company, Hartwell Pacific, was enjoying a period of fantastic growth in the late 1990s: Within 18 months, the firm grew from two employees to 200 and opened locations in seven countries. But Greer's experience offers a vivid illustration of what can go wrong when an entrepreneur ambitiously expands without understanding that emerging markets operate by very different rules. Greer didn't realiz...Starting at €8.20
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A Tough Lesson in Local Politics
McGinn, DanielArticle HBS-R1107Q-EIn 2008 Merritt Paulson announced plans to bid for the right to convert the minor-league Portland Timbers into an expansion franchise in Major League Soccer starting in 2011. Since the deal required him to renovate the existing stadium for soccer, he proposed converting a beloved neighborhood park into a stadium for his baseball team, the Portland Beavers-and he wanted more than half of the $85 million project to be paid for by public funds. Perh...Starting at €8.20
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How a CEO's Injury Helped Him Revitalize His Young Firm
McGinn, DanielArticle HBS-R1103L-EGrockit, Farbood Nivi's online-education start-up, had only 15 employees in the spring of 2009 when Nivi's scooter was hit by a minivan, and the CEO found himself in the emergency room with a severely damaged kidney. He underwent surgery and was out of the office for about six weeks. Then, shortly after his return, he learned that he needed a second operation, which was followed by another long recovery period. Not until the following December wa...Starting at €8.20
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The Trouble with CMOs
Whitler, Kimberly A; Morgan, Neil A.; Boyd, D. Eric; McGinn, Daniel; Tripodi, Joe; Welch, Greg; Fleit, CarenArticle HBS-R1704B-EMarketingThe top marketing job in the company is a minefield where many talented executives fail. In this issue we examine what makes the position so risky--and how firms can set CMOs up for success. In "Why CMOs Never Last," marketing professors Kimberly A. Whitler and Neil Morgan argue that something is deeply amiss between chief executives and their chief marketing officers. Eighty percent of CEOs don't trust or are unimpressed by their CMOs. Not surpr...Starting at €8.20
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Developing Your Global Know-How (Spanish version)
Russwurm, Siegfried; Hernandez, Luis; Chambers, Susan; Chung, Keumyong; McGinn, Daniel; Kuhn, Lothar; Geissler, CorneliaArticle HBS-R1103DLeadership and People ManagementFor example, at Walmart, as Susan Chambers relates, a new emphasis on creative, shorter-term assignments is allowing more people (including more women) to obtain global experience without the major uprooting of a conventional expat assignment. It is also helping them get that experience earlier in their careers-when it can be of maximum benefit to the employee and the company alike.Starting at €8.20
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Life's Work: Scott Adams
Adams, Scott; McGinn, DanielArticle HBS-R1311N-EThe creator of Dilbert on stumbling your way to success.Starting at €8.20