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How Bold Corporate Climate Change Goals Deteriorate Over Time

Harvard Business Review

In a recently published paper in the Academy of Management Journal , we explore how major business corporations translate the grand challenge of climate change into strategies, policies, and practices over an extended period of time. Each of these five companies were at the leading edge of corporate engagement with this issue.

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Research: How You Feel About Individualism Is Influenced by Your Social Class

Harvard Business Review

As Della Mae Justice, a successful lawyer who was raised in poverty, explained to the New York Times in 2005 , “My stomach’s always in knots getting ready to go to a party, wondering if I’m wearing the right thing, if I’ll know what to do.” The reality, however, is often quite different.

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Hugo Chavez Was No Outlier

Harvard Business Review

One can also see his continual intervention in markets, from banking to retail, as motivated by the same belief that government knows best, and that markets are not to be trusted. In 2005, Chavez supported an oil pipeline project that would link Venezuela's oil to Brazil, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina.

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5 Things Every Business Leader Should Know About Social Media

Terry Starbucker

You need to set some ground rules and establish a usage policy, or perhaps end up scratching your head about the productivity declines. Look at the positives first when developing usage policies. If your employees have access to the internet during working hours, chances are they are on some SM platform during that time. Great stuff!

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