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Soft Corporate Cultures

Coaching Tip

In the April 30, 2012 issue of FORTUNE , Jack and Suzy Welch wrote about "one of the most immutable rules of business. In The New York Times of April 22, 2012, a former executive described how Wal-Mart de Mexico had orchestrated a campaign of bribery to win market dominance. to engrave on a plaque in the lobby.

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Eighth Annual Hay Group Study Identifies Best Companies for Leadership

Great Leadership By Dan

There’s Chief Executive’s 2012 40 Best Companies for Leaders , Fortune’s 25 Top Companies for Leaders , and the just published Hay Group Best Companies for Leadership Study and Top 20. Could Mark Zuckerberg be the next Jack Welch when it comes to talent development? I’ll need to talk to Hay and find what they’ve been up to.

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The Real Reasons Companies Are So Focused on the Short Term

Harvard Business Review

This has been a remarkable year for the markets. Quarterly profits have only increased 5% since 2012 , but investors’ valuations of those profits (as measured by earnings per share) has increased 59% over the same period. This means they generate less revenue, profit and market value per dollar of R&D.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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In Defense of Cosmopolitanism

Harvard Business Review

When the European Union received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2012, I felt that my mum and dad should get a piece of it—and keep it next to the chip of Berlin Wall I had brought home two decades before. We had the mindset and skills needed to deal with and, let us face it, profit from the opening up of global markets.

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