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GC24: Killer Gamification: Engaging for Impact

Engaging Leader

The term “gamification” gained popularity in 2010; by the end of 2012, it had reached mega-trend status. The term “gamification” gained popularity in 2010; by the end of 2012, it had reached mega-trend status. Burnham, David (2002), “Inside the Mind of the World-Class Leader” Kim, Amy Jo (2012), “Social Engagement: Who’s playing?

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China’s Economy, in Six Charts

Harvard Business Review

It boasts 85 companies in the Global Fortune 500 list of the world’s largest corporations. percent average annual increase in GDP in 1990 to 2002, and 7.2 percentage points in 1990-2002, and 0.3 This is the overarching goal of China’s 2010-2015 plan. How Chinese Companies Can Develop Global Brands.

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"What the Heck Is Wrong With My Leadership?"

Harvard Business Review

But Tieto was growing rapidly and going global. By 2002, I was down to 54. When I retired from the company in 2010, my leadership score was back above 90. This post is part of the HBR Insight Center, The Next Generation of Global Leaders. Two years later we made it a full merger, and I joined the Tieto management team.

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How Chinese Subsidies Changed the World

Harvard Business Review

It is no coincidence that this upheaval in the Chinese solar industry is occurring at a time when the central government''s subsidies that had financed the industry''s explosive expansion have declined even as problems in the global solar-panel market have soared. billion in 2010. A Rise Fueled by Subsidies. Meanwhile, the annual U.S.

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GM’s Stock Buyback Is Bad for America and the Company

Harvard Business Review

In 2010 the “New GM” did one of the largest initial public offerings in history, with share sales to the public of $23.1 billion from 2010 through 2013), it would probably still be bankrupt but for the booming Chinese market. billion worth of buybacks from 1986 through 2002. Instead, U.S. taxpayers put up $49.5

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What Brazil's New President Faces

Harvard Business Review

Third, for the first time in history, a presidential election process in Brazil has occurred under an institutional and macroeconomic environment of relative tranquility — despite the global economic crisis. growth in the Gross Domestic Product in 2010. There are many reasons to be optimistic about Brazil's post-election future.

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. In short, the age of Post-Western globalization is upon us.