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How High-Speed Trains Affect The Mobility Of Talent

The Horizons Tracker

The firms are tracked between 2005-2016 to explore the makeup of the boards, and the overall quality of the firms. The researchers believe that the construction of the high-speed train line has had a number of effects on the labor market in the region.

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The 3 Types of Diversity That Shape Our Identities

Harvard Business Review

Diversity means different things to different people. Demographic diversity is tied to our identities of origin — characteristics that classify us at birth and that we will carry around for the rest of our lives. Experiential diversity is based on life experiences that shape our emotional universe. Diversity is dynamic.

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The Top Five Career Regrets

Harvard Business Review

The group was diverse: I spoke with a 39-year-old managing director of a large investment bank, a failing self-employed photographer, a millionaire entrepreneur, and a Fortune 500 CEO. In 2005, an investment banker was asked to lead a small team in (now) rapidly growing Latin America. I wish I had acted on my career hunches.

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What Smart Boards Do When Investors Knock

Harvard Business Review

Consider TPG, the American-based PE firm that acquired a significant fraction of China’s Lenovo after its 2005 purchase of IBM’s personal-computer division. When activists move from outside critic and cajoler to inside fiduciary and counselor, it is now up to the board leader to mold the more diverse boardroom players into a productive team.

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To Reform Capitalism, CEOs Should Champion Structural Reforms

Harvard Business Review

While these are all constructive strategies, they don't go far enough to challenge one fundamental assumption at the core of capitalism: that the for-profit firm is the only vehicle for organizing economic activity. British law created the Community Interest Company in 2005, and a number of U.S. that other enterprises then draw upon.

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Smart Benchmarking Starts with Knowing Whom to Compare Yourself To

Harvard Business Review

The biomedical search engine at PubMed.gov reports only 3 records from 1992 on hospitals and benchmarking , but reports 1,412 from the decade 2005-2014. There’s been night-time construction next door for the last year, and it’s almost done, so the problem will solve itself. Further Reading. Keeping Up with the Quants.

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Which Countries Will Rise to the Top in a Leaderless World?

Harvard Business Review

But all these constructions include a dizzyingly diverse set of economies that don't have much in common, and in any case the market conditions inside these countries tell only part of the story. Robert Ward of the Economist Intelligence Unit has added the CIVETS (Colombia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Egypt, Turkey, and South Africa.).

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