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The Other Women's Movement: Factory Workers in the Developing World

Harvard Business Review

These are all important endeavors, of course, but women who work in factories are largely missed: they aren''t poor enough to require the most basic assistance, but they aren''t wealthy enough to access programs targeting women for leadership roles or business development.

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

With its Emerging Businesses (EB) group (where one of us serves as President), Merck started a journey about three years ago with a core investment thesis: there are areas of growing unmet need in health care that intersect with its established competencies.

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Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

In health care, these tools are changing the way doctors identify people at risk of developing certain diseases; in fashion, they crunch purchasing data to anticipate trends; sales and marketing experts use them to tailor ad campaigns. Information & technology Leadership Strategy'

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A Model Stakeholder Strategy from the Garment Industry

Harvard Business Review

We have positioned ourselves not just as a productivity-driving force but also as an agent of society by investing in education and health care for our people. The board should step out of its traditional focus on governance and compliance and be more involved in setting the corporate value system.

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How We Transformed Emergency Care at Our Hospital

Harvard Business Review

So we took a different approach, building a highly integrated leadership team that sets a new standard for emergency care, with the needs of patients (not providers) as the driving force. We were on ambulance diversion for at least eight of every 24 hours, often longer. The Leadership Structure. Where We Started.

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What You Should Know About Dodd-Frank and What Happens If It’s Rolled Back

Harvard Business Review

It’s almost as complex as health care reform. and Germany than in a lot of other countries, like the UK, France, Italy, and Japan, where the financial system is even more concentrated and less diverse. Congressional leadership included some measures in Dodd-Frank to constrain the Federal Reserve’s power.