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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.

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

Harvard Business Review

provided the founders with considerable latitude in introducing innovative and unorthodox management methods. Prior to the Amazon merger, the company had an egalitarian structure organized around self-managed teams. Managers could operate their stores with autonomy and tailor products to customer preferences.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

The solution, we decided, was to acquire a local company that had already gained traction in the market and that could provide us with proven local management as well as help us with web search, which had become a priority after we bought U.S. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

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Marketing Success | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

with the only outcomes being failed initiatives and splintered management teams. Lastly, don’t decentralize marketing…consistent messaging across markets, mediums and constituencies is critical. Don’t be guilty of mixed messaging because the right hand didn’t know what the left hand was doing.

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