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The Growing Power of Women in Business

Women on Business

In 2012, 18 of the Fortune 500 companies will have women CEOs at the helm. In the past, business was about cooperation, and we cooperated because we had to. Men are great at cooperating. This brings us to the other side of the equation. Increasingly, it’s women. Everyone has heard of “silos” in companies.

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For Entrepreneurs, Three Ways to Control Your Destiny and Rekindle Joy

Harvard Business Review

Artisans' cooperatives help market products from diverse artists. Agricultural cooperatives such as Land of Lakes and Ocean Spray offer big brand names and wide distribution to their farmer-members. Some things that are hard to do alone can be easier if small-sized groups join forces. Following Hurricane Sandy in the U.S.

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The “40-Year-Old Intern” Goes to Wall Street

Harvard Business Review

Morgan Asset Management’s Head of Diversity Gordon Cooper told me his firm is now introducing a Legal ReEntry Program. (In In November 2012, I wrote an article for HBR about the emergence of returning professional internship programs across a wide range of sectors: for-profit, non-profit, military and academic institutions.

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What Is Business For? Cast Your Vote!

Harvard Business Review

The diversity of ideas was as striking as the diversity of the contributors. The Mondragon Cooperative Experience: Humanity at Work. You can also meet many of the winners from all three rounds of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation at the MIX Mashup on June 19, 2012, in San Francisco. Hack by Kevin McKouen.

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Rethinking Security for the Internet of Things

Harvard Business Review

In 2012 a hacker built and revealed a simple device that can open Onity-brand electronic locks (which secure over 4 million hotel room doors ) without a key. The Public/Private Cooperation We Need on Cyber Security. stock market to decline almost 1% before the news was revealed as a hoax. Encourage a skeptical culture.

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Four Innovation Trends to Watch in 2013

Harvard Business Review

Multitasking has evolved from a distraction and diversion to a financial focus wherever digital content lives. According to a PriceWaterhouse Coopers preliminary review , 2012 venture funding has actually declined. The phenomenon is global: Chinese and Indian yuppies increasingly carry two devices. Preliminary data suggest not.

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What Boards Can Do About Brain Drain

Harvard Business Review

In fact, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) estimates that almost a quarter (24.2%) of all New Zealanders with university-level educations have emigrated. leveraging diversity in company’s workforce. Among OECD nations, only Ireland has suffered as much brain drain. Global Disconnect. hiring top talent.