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Have a Real Impact; Keep Your Day Job

Harvard Business Review

The men and women who choose this path have diverse expertise and job responsibilities: marketing, leadership development, communications, operations, new business development, purchasing. Dawn Baker at Dow is revamping leadership development offerings to ensure they mesh with their company's sustainability objectives.

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How to Negotiate Nicely Without Being a Pushover

Harvard Business Review

We have to remember that they may be operating under constraints as well.” You may already know that the other side is under pressure because of supply-chain issues, or new leadership. Jeff Haydock was spearheading bidding negotiations on behalf of a solar energy company for a large installation project in a Massachusetts town.

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Africa's Chance to Leapfrog the West

Harvard Business Review

Secondly, beyond opportunity and flexibility, the level of productivity possible in the operations I describe above has been boosted several-fold by the growing proliferation of next generational models in finance, banking, and logistics. This post is part of the HBR Insight Center The Next Generation of Global Leaders.

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60 Countries’ Digital Competitiveness, Indexed

Harvard Business Review

trillion in wages are automatable by today’s technology, which could open the door to new ways to harness human energy as well as to displacing routine jobs and increasing social inequities. There is both anticipation and apprehension about what lies on the other side of the threshold of the “second machine age.”

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3 Emerging Market Risks Companies Should Watch for in 2018

Harvard Business Review

This means that many emerging market risks get cut from the senior leadership agenda. He pledges to reverse reforms that improved labor-market flexibility and private-sector participation in formerly protected industries like energy. Leftist presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador is well ahead in the polls.