How does Citi Center for Culture use the past to define their future?
When you read the business press, it’s easy to get the impression that all you need to do to make your company great is add a charismatic CEO. Find the next Steve Jobs, Jack Welch or Phil Knight and you’re halfway home.
The authors, business historians at the Winthrop Group, argue that leaders with no patience for history are missing a vital truth: A sophisticated understanding of the past is one of the most powerful tools they have for shaping the future.
Harvard Business Review editors go to work every day on articles they hope will make their mark on the history of management thinking.
In HBR and elsewhere, a number of authors have wrung their hands about the public legitimacy of business.
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