Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 18, 2013

After many years of spectacular economic growth and of what seemed — on the surface at least — like remarkable cohesion within China’s political elite, the past two years have involved what to many analysts has been an astonishing amount of turmoil at the highest levels of the Chinese political establishment.

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Women on Business

JANUARY 24, 2011

Being sharp means being succinct. Develop those contacts as a ladder to reach higher, but more challenging, prospects. Test business development, starting with advice from your banker, accountant, and lawyer. If you rely on searches for your background research, so will those you work with (if they are sharp).

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 14, 2014

tool knife from the rig on my body armor and let the pristinely sharp blade slice effortlessly through the tape and label—while being ever so careful to avoid harming whatever wonders lay inside. Enough examination of the outside of the package—time to figure out what it contained! I drew my standard-issue Gerber?tool

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Chris Brady

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

The humor is sharp, dry and keeps you looking for the next unexpected in-joke. Scam Orrin Woodward and Me out of a free book!) » November 18, 2010 Swagger Wagon Okay, time to lighten things up around here. Recent Posts Modern Man Decathlon Rising Above the Stage Show The Ass Carrying the Image The Empire of Debt Caption Contest 2011.2

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 27, 2016

Brexit seems to have finally woken the political and economic elites on both sides of the Atlantic to a reality they’ve been trying desperately, for years, to ignore: the middle class is suffering, and terribly. It is easy to point the finger at failed political leadership. In both the UK and the U.S.,

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Chris Brady

DECEMBER 13, 2010

She doesn't know about legal procedures, corporate hog-wash, fine print, buzzwords, punching a clock, political gamesmanship, back-channeling, gossip, back-stabbing, libel and slander, taxes, government scandal, and the encroachment of political correctness which is anything but what it suggests.

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Open-book Learning-by-Doing Travel Blog 124

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 14, 2017

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine. Roivant’s first response was to address misaligned incentives.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 1, 2014

Forty years ago, about quarter of American workers belonged to unions, and those unions were a major economic and political force. economy and politics. Since unions fell into sharp decline in the private sector in the 1970s, the private-sector wage gap between blacks and whites has grown. Now union membership is down to 11.2%

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Politics Sharpe Education Hotels 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 29, 2017

For example, in 2014, at the onset of the sharp deterioration in U.S.-Russian Furthermore, economic decision-making has become increasingly politicized as the government has prioritized political goals (i.e. Then, firms need to think through the types of political and macroeconomic events (e.g. ruble volatility) and policy (e.g.

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Policies Supply Chain Politics Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2011

And right now, the Chinese stock market continues to flash multiple warning signs of a sharp economic slowdown. But China's biggest underlying problem is a structural one: It has a very under-developed consumer sector and is overly dependent on export-led growth at a time when its two major customers, the U.S.

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Marketing GDP Price Sharpe 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2016

The price of this fast-track, oil-fueled development has been the region’s high dependence on oil export revenues (and in the case of Qatar, also of liquified natural gas, of which it is currently the largest producer in the world). After a period of sustained real GDP growth, which averaged around 5.8% in 2015 and 3.2%

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 5, 2013

as befits an already very developed, very rich economy. But in sharp contrast to the situation in Brazil, productivity has been rising faster than wages in the U.S. based companies at the forefront of most interesting digital developments. Sure enough, it more or less is. The lines are flatter in the U.S., for decades.

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GDP Disruptive Innovation Sharpe Productivity 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 31, 2014

This is the problem: those who most need to develop it are the ones who least realize it. HBR Guide to Office Politics. When asked to describe him, his colleagues would say things like: “he’s a bull in a china shop;” “he has sharp elbows;” and “he leaves dead bodies in his path.”

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Emotional Intelligence Self-aware Sharpe Executive Coaching 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

The place was rife with organizational politics." "My For example, if you developed a reputation for having sharp elbows and were too frequently involved in unresolved conflict with people from other departments, you may well need to improve your skills in influence, collaboration, and conflict management.

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Sharpe Cooper Delegation Long-term 10

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Those who place the care and regard of others above advancing their personal, positional, professional or political agendas will garner trust, respect and influence. If you don’t engage those who hold dissenting opinions and viewpoints in candid and open discussions you will struggle in developing to your true intellectual potential.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

They are dealing with the environment; successfully making the shift from an infrastructure state to a consumer society; becoming an innovative economy; having a positive impact on the world order; and finally, and perhaps most importantly, making the transition from Xi Jinping’s “Seven No’s” to a more sustainable political model.

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Education Politics Globalization Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Office Politics. For example, I worked with a global consumer products company in which the commercial organization — the set of departments responsible for developing new products and bringing them to market — was deeply fragmented. You and Your Team Series. Make Your Enemies Your Allies. Brian Uzzi and Shannon Dunlap.

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How To Sharpe Operations Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

” “The place was rife with organizational politics.” For example, if you developed a reputation for having sharp elbows and were too frequently involved in unresolved conflict with people from other departments, you may well need to improve your skills in influence, collaboration, and conflict management.

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Sharpe Cooper Delegation Career 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

The contrast is sharp and it is no accident. Otpor also developed a clear doctrine of values. Rather than merely spouting a vague set of slogans, the group developed an explicit guide for action. Otpor, on the other hand, created a movement that cascaded through the world. Before long, everyone lost interest.

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Management Bureaucracy Sharpe Consensus 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The answer is the sharp and unexpected rise of existential risk. Every half century or so, the risk assumptions underlying our economic, social and political foundations change dramatically. These firsts-of-their-kind developments require unprecedented degrees of creativity.".

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Uncertainty Supply Chain Scenario Planning Sharpe 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2011

Rising prices may appear to be good for the Chinese farmer, but sharp increases in the prices of agricultural inputs, such as fertilizers, seeds, and pesticides, have eroded almost all their gains. That, in turn, will trigger political pressures to slow down the process.

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Price Sharpe Banking Class 8

Frank Sonnenberg Online

MARCH 10, 2020

It’s a normal phase in a child’s development that’s marked by a burning desire for independence. That’s why we must draw a sharp distinction between right and wrong and be consistent in promoting those principles and applying deterrents. If you’re a parent, I’m sure you remember the terrible twos.

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Merchandising Sharpe Learning-by-Doing Commitment 118

N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

All the rest of this stuff is just politics and money." Now both my sons are doing the tough balancing act, but their priorities are keeping their leadership skills sharp – leading family and companies. " From a dear friend and colleague: "Family is the only thing that matters. link] Bert Decker Great post Mike.

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Blog Career Learning-by-Doing Advice 387

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Corporate procurement processes are opaque, secretive, and can be influenced by political pull as well as pure performance. Innovative, proudly geeky Norwegian software company, Trolltech , an open-source pioneer, landed a contract with the mobile division of Sharp, the Japan-based consumer electronics global powerhouse.

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The Horizons Tracker

MARCH 30, 2020

This malaise is encapsulated in a recent report from Cambridge University, which highlights how dissatisfaction with democratic politics has leaped from a third of people to half of us over the last 25 years. A sharp fall. The data suggests the sharpest fall has been since 2005, during which 38.7%

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Report Crisis Sharpe Politics 68

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Congress, however, wisely left the internet out of that experiment , letting fixed and mobile broadband access markets to develop largely on their own. This has helped contribute to the development of innovative Internet-based businesses , where 11 of the top 15 Internet businesses, most started in the last decade, are U.S.

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Price How To Policies Report 8

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Helping people develop their potential—enabling them to articulate and become the self they want to be, are capable of being, and that best serves them and others in the short and long term—is what we as individuals and leaders strive toward. Blog Post ). Blog Post ).

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

That's a sharp insight, but I'd argue (in my own new book ) that the problem's slightly different: not a high enough quality of innovation. The challenge of the democratic, developed world is a quieter rebellion: against a bankruptcy not just of the pocketbook, but of meaning.

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Globalization Sharpe Transportation Innovation 17

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

But while it feels like a lot of our political conventional wisdom is getting turned on its head, one thing that hasn’t appeared to move forward is how we talk about the economy. Of late, it is China, not Silicon Valley, taking the lead in developing mobile technologies. ranked 30th out of the 50 countries studied. and China.

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Politics McKinsey Katz Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

has recently experienced a rise in income inequality to levels last seen in the 1920s, and other countries, especially developed ones, have registered similar if less dramatic increases. What role globalization has played in all this is a matter for debate. and the UK after the years of Reagan and Thatcher.

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Globalization Education Policies Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2016

embargo of Cuba (which remains firmly in place) and a consequently sharp improvement in Cuba’s economic conditions. and Cuba could implement over the next two years will be critical for helping business executives determine the level of urgency around developing their Cuba operation. A limited business opportunity.

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