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Class-Action Lawsuits: Not The Answer for Workplace Gender Discrimination

Harvard Business Review

2006) for a discussion of the requirements for certification of a class action. That practice is supposedly a central policy of decentralized decision-making, in other words, that the company has decided to leave the substance of pay and promotion decisions to individual managers. 2d , 2010 U.S. 3d 24 (2d Cir. See, e.g. EEOC v.

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One Reason Mergers Fail: The Two Cultures Aren’t Compatible

Harvard Business Review

“Empowerment must be much, much more than a mere slogan,” Mackey wrote in a 2010 blog post. ” Such decentralization and lack of structure, however, might have ultimately contributed to company-wide inefficiencies that drove up prices. “It should be within the very DNA of the organization.”

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High Speed Rail Versus Austerity

Harvard Business Review

Between 2006 and 2010, the Chinese central government spent billions of dollars on new bullet trains that connect second and third tier cities with the mega cities of Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou — but of course bullet trains don''t connect every smaller city to a mega city. Here''s China''s story.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

A 2010 Harvard Business School case by Julie M. Wulf noted that Ma studied Jack Welch’s approach and was inspired by GE’s decentralized decision-making. At the end of 2006, eBay pulled out of the market. Tsai, for example, clearly understood U.S. Google rolled out a translated version of Google.com in 2000, running on U.S.

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Marketing Success | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Lastly, don’t decentralize marketing…consistent messaging across markets, mediums and constituencies is critical. Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth. mikemyatt: The rigidity of a closed mind is the first s. mikemyatt: More thx @BradAustin1 @LeadershipWatch @GBSL.

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