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What They Didn’t Teach You at Business School about Negotiation

Great Leadership By Dan

He dabbled with partners in electric cars, batteries, cement, chemicals, and office machines. Joseph Swan held the British patent for pretty much the same technology, and he was suing Edison there. Fifty were in countries ranging from Argentina to Canada, from Japan, China, and India to Italy, Germany, and France. Go beyond just yes.

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Top 10 Green Business Stories of 2011

Harvard Business Review

From relentless demand for resources to bamboo-like 9% growth to vicious competition for the technologies and industries of the future, China will be the big story for a long time. So one technology and company failed miserably (and perhaps the government made a bad investment choice). China, China, and China.