On October 15th, the 10th Ram Charan Management Practice Award was announced in Beijing, and Himile won the Outstanding Management Practice Award. This marks another highly prestigious management award for Himile, following its prior recognition of Peter Drucker China Management Award.

The submitted case, Himile Group: Upgrading Management to Make Continuous Innovation, was recommended by the China Center for Business Case Development, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University. It was written under the guidance of Mr. Jiang Tao, case researcher at the center.

Centered on a series of measures for the iterative upgrading of innovation system, the case demonstrates that as the enterprise enters new development stages, its management method for innovation also need to be continuously updated to meet new development needs. If offers actionable management wisdom for many enterprises. The case was also included in the case library of the Chinese edition of Harvard Business Review.

Award Recipient: Wang Xiaojing, Chairman of Trade Union for Himile Group (third from right)

Presenter: Wang Lei, Vice Dean of the School of Management, Zhejiang University (first from right)

Ram Charan Management Practice Award

Ram Charan Management Practice Case was co-initiated by Harvard Business Review China and Mr. Ram Charan, world-leading management consulting guru. Since its debut in 2017, it has gained extensive attention from the management academia, business community and policy research circles over the decade. Gathering renowned business school professors, senior scholars and industry practitioners in China, it’s committed to building a high-level platform for Chinese enterprises to exchange and learn management practices. Held annually since 2017, this year marks its 10th anniversary.

Ram Charan

Ram Charan is regarded as a contemporary guru of practical management. Rooted in business operation and execution, his management philosophy holds that managers must face business realities head-on and drive the organization to deliver results. Enterprises need to stay closely attuned to the market and customer, build a continuously iterative leadership backup, select and develop leaders capable of winning so as to ensure the organization’s long-term steady growth. 

The selection adopts a mechanism of preliminary nomination + final voting. The preliminary list consists of cases nominated by the editorial team of Harvard Business Review China and academic support institutions, as well as cases submitted by enterprises. Experts score the cases to shortlist 20 outstanding cases and individual-category cases; after deliberation and voting by the judging committee, 3 annual cases are ultimately selected.