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September 12, 2023, Opinion: "Business leaders are wrestling with how to manage their organizations' commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. If you were a CEO, which…
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July 5, 2023, Opinion: "Search “inclusion” on Amazon and the majority of book entries that come up are for children. Is that an indicator of the current state of management art on…
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April 4, 2023, "When former Google CEO Eric Schmidt tells how the company’s ad algorithm—the heart of its financial success—was revamped, here’s what he says:  One Friday…
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March 1, 2023, Opinion: "An organization’s mission is widely recognized as its reason for being. Enlightened leaders have long known and believed that the heart of an organization…
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January 2022, Book: "There is significant evidence that an effective organizational culture provides a major competitive edge—higher levels of employee and customer engagement and…
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July 5, 2021, Opinion: "I will always remember November 11, 1977 as the day I drove a Ford Pinto into the employee parking lot of the General Motors Technical Center in Detroit.…
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November 2, 2020, Opinion: "In 1997, a federal judge blocked the first proposed merger of Office Depot and Staples, ending a marriage that would have reduced the number of big box…
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June 1, 2020, Paper, "Over the past few months, several competitors have made successful competitive challenges to Amazon in ways unimagined before the pandemic. While Amazon’s…
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Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking? James Heskett, April 1, 2019, Opinion, "Not everyone thinks federal budget deficits are bad. Say hello to Modern…
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What Are the Limits of CEO Activism? James Heskett, September 6, 2017, "Should CEOs actively speak out when they encounter social injustice—even if their beliefs may not…