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The Aging Christopher Walken - His Greatest Performances

Building Personal Strength

In "Around the Bend" (2004) - the more serious movie - Turner is a moody man whose criminal past has isolated him from his father, son and grandson. Copyright 2011. Permission to use photo of Walken by John Harrison under terms of license of Wikimedia Commons). Treat yourself to a double feature! Post by Dennis E. Coates, Ph.D.,

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Why the South Will Lead in the Global Tilt

Harvard Business Review

In 2011, for the third year in a row, the Euromonitor International market research firm ranked Haier as the top appliance brand in the world, calculated its retail volume share as 7.8 He went on a tear of expansion in Latin America, then in 2004 undertook a merger with Belgium-based Interbrew. They learn fast.

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Should HSBC Stay or Should It Go?

Harvard Business Review

HBR Press, April 2011), very few firms are truly global in the sense that their business isn't concentrated in any one spot. He notes that as recently as 2004, less than one percent of all U.S. But as Pankaj Ghemawat points out in his forthcoming World 3.0 (HBR

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Why the South Will Lead in the Global Tilt

Harvard Business Review

In 2011, for the third year in a row, the Euromonitor International market research firm ranked Haier as the top appliance brand in the world, calculated its retail volume share as 7.8 He went on a tear of expansion in Latin America, then in 2004 undertook a merger with Belgium-based Interbrew. They learn fast.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

Leaders who succeed at the job usually do so by combing through the company in search of noncore assets to shed, businesses to sell, activities to stop, functions to eliminate, and product lines to simplify, as Steve Jobs did when he took back the reins at Apple in 1997, and as Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, the CEO of Lego, did in 2004.

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Cool Alone Won't Save Your Company

Harvard Business Review

When Bob came on board in 2001, he inherited a mainly crummy set of 2001-2004 car launches. Finally, GM aimed a great car in its best channel at Camry with the 2008 Malibu and a refreshed Cadillac SRX at the Lexus RX in 2010, and then, at long last, the new Chevy Cruze at the Corolla in 2011. And in the U.S.

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