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Women: The New Voices of Unions

Women on Business

With the stock market tumbling in 2008, much of their pension funds have been underfunded for years and the pressure to work more quickly and for no increase in compensation and sometimes lack of benefits is causing her great frustration. He staged several unions and six million workers to strike from AFL-CIO in 2005. in Seattle.

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Research: Most Large Companies Can’t Maintain Their Revenue Streams

Harvard Business Review

My “growth outliers” project looked at publicly traded firms with market capitalizations of greater than US 1 Billion as of 2009, using data from Capital IQ. In the 2004 sample, roughly 20% of the firms came from emerging markets. By 2010, the typical S&P company was 16 or 17 years old.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. For example, Bunge, an agribusiness firm, reported a $56 million quarterly loss in its sugar and bioenergy segments due to drought in 2010. billion in mining projects since 2010.

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Cool Alone Won't Save Your Company

Harvard Business Review

market, the single biggest problem by a wide margin was Toyota, which gobbled U.S. When Bob came on board in 2001, he inherited a mainly crummy set of 2001-2004 car launches. market: small and mid-car. The success formula is part car guy, part bean counter, and part strategist. — as it did — than if it grew.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Since then its stock has more than doubled. billion in revenue.