Center for Effective Organizations HUMAN RESOURCES AND SUSTAINED COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE : A RESOURCE-BASED PERSPECTIVE CEO PUBLICATION G 93-19 (239) P ATRICK M. WRIGHT Texas A&M University G ARY C. MCM AHAN University of Southern California ABAGAIL MCWILLIAMS Texas A&M University November 1993 C e n t e r for Ef f e c t i v e O r g a n i z a t i o n s - M a r s h a l l S c h o o l o f B u s i n e ss U n i v e r s i t y o f S o u t h e r n C a l i f o r n i a - L o s A n g e l
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1 GE’s Two Decade Transformation Team Globalization Case Analysis GE’s Two Decade Transformation: Jack Welch’s Leadership Yasmine Abdo Al-Kouraishi Muhammad Howard Steven D. Johns Kenneth V. Oliver Kimberly N. Lomax AMBA 670 Managing Strategy in the Global Workplace July 25‚ 2012 2 GE’s Two Decade Transformation Executive Summary Team Globalization has conducted an in depth analysis on General Electric ’s (GE) two decade transformation achieved by the company’s former Chief Executive
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In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s ted talk titled “We Should All Be Feminists”‚ Adichie discusses the subject matter of what the word feminists means and how feminism still affects her life today. In one of the most important points of Adichie’s speech‚ she discusses how she was led to believe that being a feminist was a bad thing‚ and how boys are put on a higher pedestal than women from the many examples she gave‚ like how a boy in her primary school was given the position of class monitor‚ just for
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AND ETHICS OF CEO PAY Leadership and Ethics of CEO Pay Chief Executive Officer pay in the United States has risen dramatically. In the past three decades the salary of a CEO has risen significantly beyond what can be explained by variables such as firm‚ size‚ performance‚ and industry classification (Bebchuk & Grinstein‚ 2005). According to research‚ the CEO pay at the nation’s top 500 largest companies averages about $10.9 million a year. The CEOs are also receiving
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If we are to experience tragic empathy with our protagonist‚ it is essential to acknowledge that he is no shallow killer but a man who moves tragically from a respected leader to a despised and isolated tyrant. It is this decline which constitutes his personal transformation. Helen Gardner describes Macbeth’s transformation as a path to damnation beginning at one extreme and ending at the other: “From a brave and loyal general‚ to a treacherous murderer‚ to a hirer of assassins‚ to an employer of
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DOING BUSINESS WITH AFRICANS Cross Culture and Negotiation Summary paper Dr. Hassan Wagih Doing business in Africa Q1- What are the risks which may encounter any business man when dealing with Africa? A-Corruption (social and political): * inadequate compensation of work and individual tribal responsibility when living the village for a job and assisting others tribal family often impose a financial burden and pressure to augment income by any means either legal or otherwise
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Students. Teachers. Parents. All Year‚ School. Suffering. Benefits. Multiple points of view. There is too much debate about whether all year school should be a thing or not. School Administrators think of it as a positive thing‚ but almost everyone else either sees it as a negative thing‚ or it does not affect them. In general‚ the School wants the best for not only the students and teachers but the parents as well‚ but what is the best for them? Parents that have the money to enroll their child
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quick. Are there others following you? I thought you had gone to the tomb… Mary: (tears and sobbing and still out of breath from running)I did John but when I got there the stone had been rolled away Peter: What! (confusion and bewilderment are all over his face and in his voice) Mary: Yes! Oh Peter‚ they have taken the Lord out of the tomb‚ and we do not know where they have laid him! (sobbing turned into wails of lament) Narrator: At once Peter and John ran to the tomb. John out ran Peter
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How I Did It… HBR.ORG Angela Ahrendts is the CEO of Burberry. Burberry’s CEO on Turning An Aging British Icon into a Global Luxury Brand by Angela Ahrendts W THE IDEA PHOTOGRAPHY: GETTY IMAGES Before Angela Ahrendts became Burberry’s CEO‚ licensing threatened to destroy the brand’s unique strengths. The answer? Centralize design and focus on innovating core heritage products. hen I became the CEO of Burberry‚ in July 2006‚ luxury was one of the fastest-growing sectors in the
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All Quiet On the Western Front‚ written by author Erich Maria Remarque‚ takes readers through a series of events in which the main character‚ Paul Baumer‚ ends up eventually being a true shattered‚ broken man. Remarque takes readers through Baumer’s transformation‚ as he starts out a hometown‚ naive‚ schoolboy who enjoys reading plays and eating potato-cakes‚ and is changed to that truly broke and shattered man as he is struggling to survive World War I on the front. Prior to the war‚ Paul’s schoolmaster
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