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IBM Focuses HR on Change

Harvard Business Review

In their role of stewards of policy compliance, they can tend to be a brake on change. In growth markets like Kenya and Malaysia, people needed to develop marketing and innovation skills. Growth market leaders learn from major markets, and equally important, vice versa.". But not at IBM.

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The CEO of Kimberly-Clark on Building a Sustainable Company

Harvard Business Review

Tom Falk, the CEO of Kimberly-Clark Corporation since 2002, talks about how the paper company is taking on environmental issues and has been practicing sustainability for 140 years. We require all of our suppliers to abide by the social compliance standards that we set. It’s been a huge success there.

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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. That's correct so far as it goes —but it doesn't go nearly far enough.