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Female Leadership on the Decline in Canada :: Women on Business

Women on Business

found that the number of women in top executives positions in Canada has fallen over the past year from 37 women in the highest-paying executive jobs in 2006 to just 31 in 2007. Furthermore, of the 535 highest paid and most senior positions at those companies, only 5.8% are held by women (down from 6.9% in the prior year).

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U.S. Corporations Don’t Need Tax Breaks on Foreign Profits

Harvard Business Review

corporations responded by bringing back $299 billion in profits in 2005, compared with an average of $62 billion from 2000 to 2004 and a subsequent decline to $102 billion in 2006. From 2005 to 2014, 458 S&P 500 companies expended $3.7 Since 2011, Read’s first full year as CEO, Pfizer has expended $44.2

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Are Multinationals Becoming Less Global?

Harvard Business Review

trillion US$ in 2012 with respect to 2011 and still remains below 2005-2007 precrisis figures. As illustrated in a recent article , in the aftermath of the crisis, MNCs are adjusting their global strategies by narrowing their focus relative to international markets. to a plant in Kentucky. to a plant in Kentucky.

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The Decline of Yahoo in Its Own Words

Harvard Business Review

On Google’s earnings call for the first quarter of 2006 – more than a year before the iPhone was released and more than two years before the release of the first Android-operated smartphone – CEO Eric Schmidt went out of his way to talk about mobile. In 2011 we were playing a bit of catch-up compared to the market.

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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. Flooding in 2011 in Thailand, harmed 160 companies in the textile industry and halted nearly a quarter of the country’s garment production, increasing global prices by 28%.

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Cool Alone Won't Save Your Company

Harvard Business Review

I worked with him for three years (2006-2008) during my work with Rick Wagoner and his senior team on the attempt to turnaround the fortunes of GM. market, the single biggest problem by a wide margin was Toyota, which gobbled U.S. market: small and mid-car. I like Bob Lutz. Bob and I tended to be on the same side on most issues.

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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. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.