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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

From time to time, the basis of competition in an industry shifts so dramatically that shifting with it requires a new long-term vision that calls for the organization to do things it never would have done in the past. Sponsored by Accenture. Strategies for staying ahead. Connecting Three Different Business Portfolios.

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How to (Gradually) Become a Different Company

Harvard Business Review

It initially lost about half of its revenues by divesting its copper and zinc smelting business, but by 2010 it had quadrupled its revenues to €2 billion through a combination of acquisitions and organic growth. Acquisitions are part and parcel of a transformation. Safeguard the short-term performance of the ongoing business.

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For U.S. Employers, Health Care Reform Is a Watching and Waiting Game

Harvard Business Review

Understanding the implementation plans for the health care law passed in 2010 is a complicated job for even the most seasoned policy wonks. A cascading series of deadlines, operating systems, and reporting rules have to be arranged, tested, and communicated. something reform advocates have long hoped to see better calibrated.

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Become Businessperson of the Year

Harvard Business Review

Fortune recently named its Businesspersons of the Year for 2010 , and the list was, for the most part, predictable. These CEOs think big and think long-term — but not so big that their ideas are unmanageable. Yes, there were wunderkind founder-CEOs like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg. Finally, they don't do it alone.

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