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Decoding The Truth Of Leading Multi-Generational Workforces

Tanveer Naseer

In some ways it’s only natural that we see an increase in discussions on potential challenges for organizations in operating under a multi-generational workforce. “Generational differences in work-related attitudes: A meta-analysis”, Journal of Business and Psychology, 27(4), p. & Coulon, L. Badger J.M.,

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Top 10 Sustainable Business Stories of 2012

Harvard Business Review

Individual companies are feeling the bite: analysts at Morningstar estimate that input costs at Tyson Foods will rise by $700 million — more than its 2012 net income. One auto analyst declared 2012 the " Year of the Green Car ," with more high-MPG models, 500,000 hybrid sales in the U.S., It wasn't just energy. on to 2013.

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Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2011

Harvard Business Review

So it's no wonder that business started to wake up to the serious danger that storms and shortages present to their operations, both from direct damage to property and from massive production interruptions (i.e., Valuing and internalizing the externalities: Puma Calculates its Environmental P&L. business continuity").

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How CEOs Can Make Smart Strategic Trade-Offs

Harvard Business Review

In 2012, GE’s CEO Jeff Immelt launched GE’s digital strategy to connect minds and machines, combining a legacy of innovative industrial manufacturing with cutting-edge data and analytics expertise. ” Failure to grasp such disruptions — and adapt quickly — can be fatal.

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Scaling Is Hard. Here's How Akamai Did It.

Harvard Business Review

In 2012, analysts forecast the company will achieve nearly $1.5 Go after it aggressively, even if it means risking making hiring and operating mistakes and wasting capital — so long as this capital is relatively cheap, as it was for Akamai in the midst of the Internet bubble.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

In a departure from GE’s traditional control systems, the Center was not set up as its own business unit with its own P&L, but rather was funded by a $1 billion investment by Jeff Immelt and became part of GE Global Research. By June of 2012 we were close to 100. Operations Competitive strategy Technology'

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Announcing the Leaders Everywhere Challenge

Harvard Business Review

Tellingly, only five of the 30 CEOs Barron's picked in 2008 as the world's best showed up on a similar list in 2012. When leaders come up short, as they often do, the problem may have less to do with them as individuals than with the top-down structures in which they operate.

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