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The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable

Harvard Business Review

Umair Haque Blogs Umair Haque On: Global business , Competition , Economy The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable 4:33 PM Monday November 29, 2010 | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print Once upon a time, there was a country where bankers disappeared.

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Building Fluent Organizations~3 Things That Get in the Way

You're Not the Boss of Me

There is a tendency to discount this work because it is viewed, by some, as being less important and the people who produce it, as little more than overhead. For me, creating fluency means building and operating systems that are unimpeded by interests that do not serve the raison d’être of the organization.

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Thank You for Doing Your Job

Harvard Business Review

On November 10, 2010, Cisco's stock price dropped 16%, erasing roughly $20 billion of market value in a matter of hours. Early on in my career, I had a boss who discounted my ability to connect with clients. And to another: "Every day, I notice how meticulously you attend to operations. Had something catastrophic happened?

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The Last Days of Pushing on a String

Harvard Business Review

beyond creating an easy money situation through reduction of discount rates, there is very little, if anything, that the reserve organization can do to bring about recovery.". The European Union forgot to build a fiscal instrument and that's why they have a Euro crisis. The problem in the Eurozone is even more extreme.

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In FCC's Report on Wireless Competition, an Agenda?

Harvard Business Review

To answer the question of how prices would be affected, it needed only to look at existing markets where one player operated but not the other. In 2010, the Horizontal Merger Guidelines were revised to reflect this new thinking in competition analysis.). By any measure, the industry is approaching a licensed spectrum capacity crisis.

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Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth

Harvard Business Review

The global financial crisis prompted many companies to pull in their horns, hoard cash, trim costs, and take a wary view of large investments. Yet the same crisis ushered in a new age of capital superabundance. Global capital balances more than doubled between 1990 and 2010 — from $220 trillion (about 6.5

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Since then its stock has more than doubled.