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What Brazil's New President Faces

Harvard Business Review

Dilma is likely to preserve the macroeconomic policies consolidated in the last 16 years and accountable for delivering an estimated 7.0% Dilma is likely to preserve the macroeconomic policies consolidated in the last 16 years and accountable for delivering an estimated 7.0% growth in the Gross Domestic Product in 2010.

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An Approach to Ending Poverty That Works

Harvard Business Review

All of us — researchers, policymakers, governments, social entrepreneurs, nonprofit development groups, microfinance institutions, corporations, and philanthropists — have a role to play in bringing them into the widening zone of prosperity. If we’re to end poverty, we can’t ignore them. 5% of GDP over six years.

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The Answer to Short-Termism Isn’t Asking Investors to Be Patient

Harvard Business Review

Too many companies prioritize quarterly earnings over long-term innovation, human capital investment, and brand development, and many people believe short-term shareholders are to blame. stock exchanges in 2002 to identify causation rather than mere correlation. These studies use the decimalization of the major U.S.

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 2 of 4

Strategy Driven

Business development. K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. Thus, efforts to treat a fraction of one percent took resources away from addressing the other 99.999% of companies’ full-scope planning, training and marketplace development.

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The Big Picture of Business – What Business Must Learn: Putting.

Strategy Driven

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in Running the business Financial People Business development Body of Knowledge The Big Picture No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. The average bank teller loses about $250 every year.

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

The boom-bust tendencies of Wall Street mean we need tougher capital requirements for banks, Greenspan now says, and maybe even a forced return to the partnerships that once dominated investment banking. And the notion that you could calibrate monetary policy to suppress a boom against the human nature bubbling up has no factual basis.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

Business development. So were professional development programs, rewards for random acts of kindness and other empowerment initiatives. The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. No executive development program was held at Enron. Running the business. Executives.