Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Organizations that move into developing nations to help small technical businesses, must help those businesses manage their finances. People need at least a rudimentary understanding of finance to become good entrepreneurs or artisans. If they understand cash flow, they will make better decisions and stay in business.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

As Tom Davenport, Larry Prusak, and I talk to people about our current research, we hear broad support for its central thesis: that good judgment is not only something required of individuals in leadership positions; it is something that must be embedded in organizations as a whole.

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Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Susaans work with senior executives over the last 30 years shows over and again that the people (mostly men) who rise to senior levels in organizations have a preference for operating in the abstract. Ive seen this in the organizations where Ive consulted. Is the balance right in your organization? We all have.

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Process CEO Insurance Banking 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

John Cassidy has eloquently argued in the New Yorker that banks are largely "socially useless" organizations, which create what Ive termed thin value — they blow up every few years, when their "profits" are revealed to be as bogus as a three dollar bill, and people and societies are left holding the bag.

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Banking Crisis Merton Guidelines 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

As for more serious stuff, youll have to wait until March for Ran Spieglers upcoming book, Bounded Rationality and Industrial Organization. As for more serious stuff, youll have to wait until March for Ran Spieglers upcoming book, Bounded Rationality and Industrial Organization.

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Retail Price Comparison Nalebuff 14

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

But if you were the organization that broke a story, or researched and originated it through a long investigation , Google News wouldnt give you a break. But if you were the organization that broke a story, or researched and originated it through a long investigation , Google News wouldnt give you a break.

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