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10 Elements of a Great Woman’s Leadership Development Program

Great Leadership By Dan

With all due respect to Jack Welch , the facts tell a different story: According to 20-First’s 3rd Annual Global Gender Scorecard , 90% of Executive Committee positions are still filled by men, with only 10% by women. Discrimination still exists – it’s just more subtle – referred to as “ second generation gender discrimination ”.

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Think Global, Not Emerging Markets, Century

Harvard Business Review

Nokia's recent burning platform travails serve as an object lesson to companies trying to navigate a rapidly-changing global economy. Without operating in the former, they won't be able to attain economies of scale; sans the latter, they're unlikely to continue developing state-of-the-art technologies. In 2009, the U.S.

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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

According to a recent McKinsey Global Institute report , the number of people in the global labor force will reach 3.5 The result is likely to be intensified global competition for talent. Prior to 2010, Rakuten had been a multilingual global company. Photo by Christine Roy. It consists of five key actions.

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StrategyDriven Podcast Special Edition 53 – An Interview with.

Strategy Driven

About the Authors Randy Dobbs, author of Transformational Leadership , is a Senior Operating Executive at Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe; one of the largest and most successful private-equity firms in the United States. Ives Sharon Drew Morgen Hank Moore Jamie P. Thank you again for listening to the StrategyDriven Podcast !

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The Unnoticed Analyst: Can analytics succeed while going unnoticed.

Strategy Driven

Posted by Thornton May on November 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment The classic Harvard Business School case “Otisline (A)” 1 begins with the quote, “… our objective is to go unnoticed.” In the global economy, can analytic practitioners be hugely successful in their careers while going unnoticed?

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The Best-Performing Emerging Economies Emphasize Competition

Harvard Business Review

More than half that reached the top quintile in terms of economic profit generation between 2001 and 2005 had been knocked off their perch a decade later, in 2010-15. By comparison, 62% of incumbents in high-income economies on average remained in the top quintile for the same decade. The short answer we find from our research is: No.

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Who Pays Corporate Taxes? Possibly You

Harvard Business Review

If a country allows free capital flows and free trade and has a corporate tax rate much higher than that of its neighbors, investors can choose to buy shares in companies elsewhere that face a lower tax, and corporate management can choose to move operations abroad. By comparison, workers are pretty immobile.