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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

Our ways of thinking about careers, colleagues, and collaboration will need to become more flexible and adaptable. What’s more, the subsidiaries operated more or less autonomously, each with separate organizational cultures and norms. Aspiring to a global career. Translators were employed for cross-border communications.

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America's Innovation Shortfall and How We Can Solve It

Harvard Business Review

A little-recognized NSF report released in September 2010, the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) , said that only 9% of public and private companies engaged in either product or service innovation between 2006 and 2008. Apple, the single exception, operates as a startup. That's before the Great Recession.