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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. There are all sorts of strategies in today’s business – at the top is corporate strategy, followed by a slew of functional and sub-functional strategies ranging from marketing to waste management. In the CEO Afterlife. Main menu Home.

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How Organic Wine Finally Caught On

Harvard Business Review

If you cannot remember the last time you had a glass of organic wine, you are hardly alone. Overall, less than 5% of the world’s vineyards are organic. In the United States, the world’s largest consumer of wine, only 1% of wine sold by volume was organic. Why the difference?

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Would You Work for a Tobacco Company?

Harvard Business Review

Conversely, other students took the position that the best way to change an organization is from the inside – and that they would have much more influence and ability to affect social change if they joined the company, despite its flaws. reports, from 2000 to 2011 tobacco usage among middle school students dropped from 14.9%

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The Company Outsmarting Big Pharma in Africa

Harvard Business Review

It has doubled its market cap in the five years and sales reached almost $1.5 What's more, these are markets that traditional developed market firms are increasingly targeting for their own growth goals. and other traditionally developed markets. and other traditionally developed markets.

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What Businesses Need to Know About Sustainable Development Goals

Harvard Business Review

First, the global goals campaign represents a significant new opportunity for companies that view emerging and frontier markets as their source of long-term growth. According to estimates from McKinsey, consumers in these markets could be worth $30 trillion by 2025 — a significant step up from the 2010 value of $12 trillion.

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India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

In 2008, Dr Reddy's acquired Chirotech, Dow Chemical's R&D unit, for $32 million, and in April 2011 relocated it to a new 33,000 sq. Dr Reddy's plan is to leverage Chirotech's scientific capabilities to optimize drug development processes, thus lowering manufacturing costs and speeding time-to-market.

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Leading in a World of Resource Constraints and Extreme Weather

Harvard Business Review

” Today we face a set of unprecedented disruptions under the “sustainability” banner that are driving deep change in organizations (indeed, the HBS paper is mainly about the rise of the Chief Sustainability Officer). Resource constraints mean organizations have to use less stuff. The Future of Operations.