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Getting at the Heart of Leadership

You're Not the Boss of Me

I wrote this post in September, 2011. And, if we expect them to bring all of themselves to work and dedicate their energies to the success of our enterprises, we must also care about them. Ms Ingraham worked as an Administrative Assistant for a pharmaceutical company in New Jersey. There are lessons here worth repeating. .

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What's Next For Guangdong?

Harvard Business Review

While Guangdong's exports accounted for as much as 37% of China's exports by 2000, its share dropped to 28% in 2011. The province's exports growth rate, which was 26% in 2010, fell to 22% in the first nine months of 2011, and it has continued to decline ever since. Look at the data.

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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

The diverging fortunes of two recent spin-offs in the energy industry illustrate how financial markets value autonomy from the parent. For example, after its spin-off from International Paper, Arizona Chemical drastically changed its market approach from a drive for volume to margin optimization.

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Technology Progresses When Business, Government, and Academia Work Together

Harvard Business Review

The initial breakthrough came in 1987, but the first drug wasn’t approved until 2011. The Joint Center For Energy Storage Research (JCESR) has a five-year mandate to develop next generation battery technologies. In battery research, for example, scientists have long focused on finding materials with greater energy density.

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India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

We recently visited the brand-new R&D lab of Dr Reddy's , one of India's leading pharmaceutical firms. 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. This lab isn't located in Bangalore or Hyderabad (where Dr Reddy's is headquartered) but in.

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

It developed the NOOK and has devoted significant space in its retail stores to display and promote it, and it has a broad online library. But since your ability to execute well and consistently is the very fabric of success, I can think of no better place to focus your time and energy. Execution is not a single-point event.

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Using Supply Chains to Grow Your Business

Harvard Business Review

But entrepreneurial know-how and energy can work very effectively in the context of plugging-in as a supplier, as Steve Cronce and thousands of others are learning. Collins worked primarily on IT related work, such as systems integration and software development. Taking this path isn’t a cake walk, however.