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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. a holding company that operates seven distinct business. Rod MacKenzie – Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer, member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team.

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To Profit from Doing Good, Start Small

Harvard Business Review

Leaders of these companies now believe that "doing good" can be a powerful strategy for growing markets, stimulating innovation, motivating employees, tapping into new talent pools, and actually reducing costs. Bring your team together to identify ways that you can operate with greater sustainability and then set stretch targets.

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Setting Strategy in Egypt's (and Other) Shifting Sands: A Four-Part Approach

Harvard Business Review

Developments in the Middle East — first the removal of long-time Tunisian President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011 and now Hosni Mubarak's stepping down in Egypt — suggest that authoritarian regimes in the region are not immune to "people power."

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The Fine Line Between When Low Prices Work and When They Don’t

Harvard Business Review

They operate with extreme cost and process efficiency, which enables them to enjoy good margins and profits even while charging low prices. At the same time, Honda was developing a much simpler and extremely inexpensive model called the Wave. They have a high-growth, high-revenue focus. They are extremely efficient.

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

There is no more powerful question in a U.S. To an extent not widely recognized, it was an equation in the first place that gave ROE the power to dominate not just investment decisions, but an entire business culture. Prahalad pointed out, the "bottom of the pyramid" is a market and not a social problem. Social media spending?

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