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The Crisis in Ukraine: What's Next?

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As you can see, the Russian stock market dropped sharply during the 2007-2009 financial crisis. Recently, the European Union vice president Vivian Reding told CNBC that she hopes that "common sense comes back and the two sides manage to come together to create a common country in the interest of all Ukrainian people.". Look closer.

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Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)

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In just seven years (2002-2009), he transformed a moribund ex-state-owned telecom operator, MTC, from its base of 500,000 customers in Kuwait into an international company that reached over 72 million customers across 23 countries in the Middle East and Africa, introducing the world's first boundary-less roaming. Related articles.

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Job Search and Person-to-Person Networking

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Person-to-person networking continues to be job seekers’ most successful tool, according to a study by Right Management. The firm analyzed job data on the nearly 60,000 individuals throughout North America to whom it provided career transition services over the past three years. Source of New Job (59,133 job seekers). . Networking.

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The Ambition Gap

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The software giant, which has expanded parental leave for both genders and mentorship programs for women , was recently named in a proposed class-action suit alleging managers unfairly passed over women for raises and promotions; Microsoft says it is reviewing the complaint. There’s only life,” says veteran Microsoft Corp. PwC LLP, the U.S.

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A Global Standard of Living Shift

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Median income for men was actually higher, in real terms, in 1973 than in 2009. In 2009, 66 million women were employed in the U.S. with the largest percentage (40%) in management, professional, and related occupations; 32 percent worked in sales and office occupations and 21 percent in service occupations.

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Succession Planning -- Tackling the Talent Problem

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In contrast, talent-pool based succession planning encourages managers to consider talent in every part of the organization as a way to identify possible successors for positions that may come open. One approach is to ask managers to assess and nominate people. i] Bersin & Associates, Succession Management: A Primer , June 2009. [ii]

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Immune to Change

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In the last fifteen years, organizational change management has exploded. In fact, the failure rate has remained at or about 68% for the past fifteen years (Standish, 2009). Yet, despite advances in the field, the vast majority of organizational change initiatives still fail.