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The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable

Harvard Business Review

Umair Haque Blogs Umair Haque On: Global business , Competition , Economy The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable 4:33 PM Monday November 29, 2010 | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print Once upon a time, there was a country where bankers disappeared. And thats exactly the role that pubs began to play.

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Artisans Must Balance the Books

Harvard Business Review

Most African artisans do not bank because of the fees associated with operating current accounts. You pay a fee for withdrawing your money in most African banks, thereby discouraging many from banking. People need at least a rudimentary understanding of finance to become good entrepreneurs or artisans.

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Why More Cities Should Offer Summer Jobs for Teens

Harvard Business Review

Now city and state leaders hope to use summer jobs programs to provide meaningful employment experiences that can improve teens’ job readiness and financial skills and boost their academic and career aspirations. To what degree did the program’s formal career readiness training enhance outcomes?

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Britain’s Patient-Safety Crisis Holds Lessons for All

Harvard Business Review

But too often, I see leaders focusing on the monthly financials while losing connection to the work and care at the bedside. Earlier in my career, I had the chance to visit leaders such as Jack Welch (GE), Paul O’Neill (Alcoa), and Ralph Larsen (Johnson & Johnson). Leading Health Care Innovation. Ask four questions.

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The Ways Big Cities Think About Large-Scale Change

Harvard Business Review

And The Saint Paul Foundation filled financing gaps, using loans, loan guarantees and even equity investments — investments commonly associated with banks or other private investors, but likely too risky for traditional lenders until there was a more proven track record. Build, measure, learn, and declare.

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Connecting Unemployed Youth with Organizations That Need Talent

Harvard Business Review

Many come from families with incomes below the poverty line and suffer from lack of educational and career supports. Meanwhile, the alternative — housing subsidies, unemployment insurance, health care subsidies, even incarceration costs — generate huge social costs. For women, the spread 10 years out is 16%.

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What Economists Know That Managers Don’t (and Vice Versa)

Harvard Business Review

Not for the highly-regarded work on competition between small numbers of firms with which his career began more than thirty years ago but for more recent work on how carefully structured regulation can improve performance relative to unbridled market forces. banking assets and as such are “too big to fail”). Economy Finance'