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Is HR Too Important to Be Left to HR?

Harvard Business Review

8:07 AM Tuesday November 23, 2010 by Armin Trost | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print Too often I hear even HR people saying, "HR is too important to be left to HR." Its the managers responsibility to lead their employees, manage performance, and provide guidance. Im sick about it.

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Think Global, Not Emerging Markets, Century

Harvard Business Review

However, Nokia ran into trouble by underestimating the speed at which technological developments in the United States, pioneered by rivals such as Apple, are transforming the mobile telecommunications business. In 2010, China overtook Japan to become the world's second largest R&D spender (in purchasing power parity terms) after the U.S.

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Artisans Must Balance the Books

Harvard Business Review

The Conversation Blogs The Conversation Artisans Must Balance the Books 8:12 AM Tuesday November 23, 2010 by Ndubuisi Ekekwe | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print The boy was 11 years old when his father took him to live with a kinsman, a businessman with many shops in Lagos, Nigeria.

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Leadership in Liminal Times

Harvard Business Review

They must manage to both craft the new world with smart strategy, often in the wake of disruption, and cause the organization to embrace the required change. Today, managers add value by brokering with people, not by presiding over empires.”. In this gap between ordered worlds almost anything may happen.”. Lawrence A. billion to $11.7

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Rethinking the Work of Leadership

Harvard Business Review

In 1973, Peter Drucker stated in his book Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, Practices, "Management is not culture-free, that is, part of the world of nature. What if our approach to leadership was to evolve into Drucker''s vision of "socially accountable and culturally embedded" management? It is a social function.

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Joint Ventures Reduce the Risk of Major Capital Investments

Harvard Business Review

This is the virtual network operator (VNO) model used by the telecommunications sector. Two companies transfer selected similar assets into a joint venture in order to support the orderly management of capacity in their industry and reduce the risk of prices spiraling downward. Distributed power generation is a well-known example.

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

Harvard Business Review

All economists recognize that competitive analysis is all about customers; if firms exercise market power, customers suffer through higher prices and foreclosed entry of new competitors. If firms are not exercising market power, competition reigns. The report instead elevates inferences of monopoly power based on market shares.