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The Globalization Backlash Is Reverberating Through Boardrooms

Harvard Business Review

As a practical matter, for example, these changes in the global policy regime are forcing multinational corporations to scale back and sell parts of their international operations. While international lending, as measured by cross-border banking claims at the Bank for International Settlements, has declined $2.6

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Two Forces Moving Business Closer to Climate Action

Harvard Business Review

In July, General Mills — nobody’s idea of a radical company — expanded the pro-climate lobbying group BICEP beyond the usual suspects (Nike, Starbucks, Ben & Jerry’s) to add a distinctly mainstream voice to the call for policies like a price on carbon. Kellogg’s officially joined the group yesterday as well.

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Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité (Unless You're a Working Mom)

Harvard Business Review

There''s nothing new about comparing global policies pertaining to working parents, particularly when it comes to working mothers. We actually define ourselves as a technology company," VP Carolyn Everson once said, a bit sniffily. BONUS BITS: What''s in the Piggy Bank. There''s the Rub. —Andy O''Connell.

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10 Sustainable Business Stories That Shaped 2015

Harvard Business Review

Consider that other power brokers, such as Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank, echoed themes similar to those the Pope raised. More than 50 large companies have joined RE100 , a group committing to use 100% renewable power (disclosure: I’m on the RE100 steering committee). In the U.S., No, this was about fraud.

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

The boom-bust tendencies of Wall Street mean we need tougher capital requirements for banks, Greenspan now says, and maybe even a forced return to the partnerships that once dominated investment banking. The technology-stock bubble of the late 1990s and its subsequent deflation were among the defining events of Greenspan’s tenure.

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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

I further made recommendations that future charitable requests would go through committee and that the client’s partners and key executives were better suited by serving on community boards, thus polishing their own luster. The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making.

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8 Ways Governments Can Improve Their Cybersecurity

Harvard Business Review

Target, Sony Pictures, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and the U.S. One challenge countries face: there are hundreds of MFA technologies vying for attention, but not all are created equal. Don’t prescribe any single technology or solution — focus on standards and outcomes.