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New Report: We're Not As Connected As We Think

Harvard Business Review

Based on data covering the period from 2005 to 2011, it charts how globalization has evolved since the onset of the financial crisis at the global, regional, and national levels. Improving a country's domestic business environment can go a long way toward strengthening its international connections.

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The Mainstreaming of Augmented Reality: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

mobile devices are now powerful enough to handle AR software and tracking systems), three other elements have enabled the mass adoption of AR apps: 1) meaningful content, 2) convincing and realistic interaction of the virtual with the physical environment, and 3) unique value that goes beyond what other technologies deliver.

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What I Learned from Leading a Tunisian Ministry During the Arab Spring

Harvard Business Review

Nonetheless, I ended up with that job, and found out what it really means to lead in a high turbulence environment. After the toppling of Dictator Ben Ali in January 2011, whose stifling reign lasted nearly a quarter century, the country faced a rocky start to a new ruling order. And you wouldn’t be allowed to complain?

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Funders Can Give More than Money

Harvard Business Review

The outlook is only marginally better for endowments , with returns on their invested capital hovering around 5 percent—as they did in 2011. A forecast issued late in the year by The Chronicle on Philanthropy projected their collective growth at just 1 percent. percent lower than its value in 2007.

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The Gulf Spill: BP Still Doesn’t Get It

In the CEO Afterlife

BP’s talk about caring for the environment was for naught, as its actions failed to match its message. More recently, the BP-sponsored Gulf Coast tourism TV campaign has implied that everything is back to normal. The ”Health safety environment” theme contains zero releases since 2008.

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Why Your Customers Hate You and How to Fix It

Skip Prichard

And even when we’re connected, we’re often dazed and confused: with more than six billion smartphones projected worldwide by 2020, we’ve succeeded in creating an environment in which we and our employees can, if we want, work 24/7, checking our phones as many as 150 times per day. No wonder we have skills shortages!

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