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Microsoft Taxes Itself

Harvard Business Review

The execution plan has some interesting elements (see a pithy white paper on the full carbon neutrality plan here ). Over time, by my calculations, given the growth in cloud services the company is banking on, these carbon fees could rise to a more noticeable $50 million by 2020.

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IT Can’t Be Slower than the Rest of the Business - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM IBM

Harvard Business Review

IBM has transformed itself many times since its inception as a weights and scales company in the late 19th century and most recently embarked on a digital transformation of their own. This was a large, massive-scale transformation with over 110,000 employees globally. Let’s take banking, for example. Max De Ycaza, IBM.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

The firm wrote a white paper, “Transformation Underway … But Nobody Cares,” which essentially said GE stock was undervalued because investors didn’t believe Immelt and GE management would do the things needed to deliver a higher stock price and dividends. In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5

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Climate Change Is an Overwhelming Problem. Here Are 4 Things Executives Can Do Today

Harvard Business Review

As Generation Investment Management put it in “ The Transformation of Growth ,” their 2017 white paper, “The Sustainability Revolution appears to have the scale of the Industrial Revolution and the Agricultural Revolution — and the speed of the Information Revolution.

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Lighthouse Leadership Weekly #104: Disagreeable Givers?, Having Standards vs. Being Nice, and more.

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One that stood out was that in their Monday all-hands meeting, the CEO would show the entire company their bank account balance. Poll of the Week on Scaling Challenges and Culture Habits Did a friend forward this to you? In fact, many things break as you scale, because they dont work anymore. Ready to join us?

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The Staggering Cost Of Disengaged Employees: How Disengagement Impacts Your Bottom Line

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Annual cost of unscheduled absences: approximately $2,650 per employee – Circadian White Paper on absenteeism Quantifying the Cost: Data and Statistics on Disengaged Employees So,what is the actual cost of disengagement?