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Overcoming Your Time Zone Challenges

Carmel, Erran

As organizations grow increasingly reliant on a global workforce, they need to know how to mitigate time zone challenges. This article, based on 20 years of research by the author on global working arrangements, explains how companies can not only mitigate the time zone problem but can use it as a source of competitive advantage.

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Innovation and Change

Clearing the Path to Innovation

Miller, Paddy; Wedell-Wedellsborg, Thomas

If you want to make innovation happen, you need to change the way people act or behave in their daily work. Based on material in their book Innovation as Usual, the authors present five key behaviors, which they believe leaders ought to foster in their employees in order to release innovation in their companies.

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Finance

Stepping Out of the Confines of Finance

Sagnier, Pablo; Baón, Luis

The upheaval in the world of corporate finance brought on by the global financial crisis is transforming the role of the CFO. This article lists the greater competencies needed for CFOs to meet the new demands being placed on them.

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Finance

Responsible Investing Takes Root

Ferraro, Fabrizio

IESE Prof. Fabrizio Ferraro believes this is an opportune moment for institutionalizing responsible investment and ushering in a new, more sustainable age of capitalism. This article identifies some of the key drivers and the challenges that responsible investment poses to investors and managers as they try to take this novel field and embed it into their institutional practices.

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Corporate Governance

The Real Value of Say-on-Pay

Giné, Mireia

While Say-on-Pay policies may not curb excessive remuneration, they do provide other measurable, positive benefits for companies and their shareholders. IESE Prof. Mireia Giné argues that Say-on-Pay measures can be effective for strengthening corporate governance and accountability within the firm, outweighing the time and costs they require.

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