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Clout as Strategy and Why Companies Won't Admit It | In the CEO.

In the CEO Afterlife

by John • August 29, 2011 • Human Resources , Leadership , Strategy • 2 Comments. According to licensing agreements and industry sources, Monsanto’s stranglehold on the genetically-engineered seed market in the United States and the world squeezes customers, limits competitors and provides staggering profits.

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Cast the Net Wide – Make the Most of Your Promotional Time and.

Women on Business

We need to decide how to best divide energies—whom to feed first. How do you best focus the time and resources you have? Do what has to be done and don’t waste energy on fear that undermines performance— unless the doubt is a nagging hunch of a wrong direction! Perhaps this is an issue of confidence.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Only legal, finance, and human resources still reported back to headquarters. A 2010 Harvard Business School case by Julie M. In the early days, we invested a lot of energy in analyzing which businesses would fit best with Yahoo. Tsai, for example, clearly understood U.S.