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London Succeeds in Its Olympic Trials

Harvard Business Review

We stand today on July 27, one year away from the Opening Ceremony of the London 2012 Olympic Games. London was announced as host city on July 6, 2005 to wild celebrations. Day one of the 100-day planning process was a particularly somber one. Despite this, the 2012 Oympic Games has become a critical component for it.

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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. Disruptions in the supply chain may affect production processes that depend on unpriced natural capital assets such as biodiversity, groundwater, clean air, and climate. In 2005, they launched a U.S.

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How One Company Contained Health Care Costs and Improved Morale

Harvard Business Review

In response, more and more employers are providing Employee Assistance Programs (74% in 2012, up from 46% in 2005) and wellness programs (63% in 2012, up from 47% in 2005). This process has to start at the top and has to be about the employees first,” says CEO Lagerstrom. per member per month. to $387.20

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China's Impending Slowdown Just Means It's Joining the Big Leagues

Harvard Business Review

That''s been the finding of economists Barry Eichengreen of UC Berkeley, Donghyun Park of the Asian Development Bank in Manila, and Kwanjo Shin of Korea University in Seoul in two recent studies of growth slowdowns in emerging markets around the world. Not that stuff couldn''t go wrong along the way. China Economy Finance'

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Jamie Dimon’s Pay Raise Sends Mixed Signals on Culture and Accountability

Harvard Business Review

million for 2012, a 74 percent increase. Dimon’s raise obviously has special resonance because JP Morgan’s legal woes were one of the top business stories last year as it agreed to $20 billion in payments to settle a variety of cases involving the bank’s conduct since 2005 when Dimon became JPM CEO.

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Mindfulness Helps You Become a Better Leader

Harvard Business Review

As markets rose and bonus pools grew, it was all too easy to celebrate the rising tide of wealth without examining the process that created it. The course that I created in 2005, Authentic Leadership Development (ALD), has become one of the most popular elective MBA courses, thanks to my HBS colleagues who are currently teaching it.

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

Harvard Business Review

Since its bankruptcy in 2012, Kodak has been a poster child for innovation incompetence: After inventing the world’s first digital camera in 1975, the conventional story goes, myopic managers allowed a bloated company to let inertia drive it off a cliff. By 2005, Kodak ranked No. A misunderstood story. digital-camera sales (No.