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When Treating Workers Well Leads to More Innovation

Harvard Business Review

In a recent working paper , currently under review by the Journal of Corporate Finance, researchers from Monash University and LaTrobe University in Australia compared a common measure of worker treatment to patent data, and found that companies with higher worker treatment scores produced more patents, and more highly cited patents.

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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

A 2010 meta-analysis detailed many of the different issues that make divestiture so hard to evaluate consistently. The outsiders provide new blood in support functions such as finance, legal, or administration. ” Obviously the required resources and optimal financial structure depend on the starting quality of its assets (e.g.,

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Many Companies Still Don’t Know How to Compete in the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

By 2005, Kodak ranked No. By 2010, Kodak had clawed its way to No. From finance and manufactured goods to farms and pharmacy, the digital revolution enabled by sensors, connectivity, and distributed intelligence will upend competitive positions and strategies across the ecosystem. digital-camera sales (No. 3 globally).

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How Chinese Companies Can Develop Global Brands

Harvard Business Review

Also, while China’s outward-bound foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown from an annual average of below $3 billion before 2005 to more than $60 billion in 2010 and 2011, only one third of Chinese companies have seen international revenue meet expectations, according to Accenture. Rebrand from the inside out.

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