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Why Labor Protests in France Won’t Stop Macron’s Reforms

Harvard Business Review

The protests have already cost the CEO of Air France his job : He stepped down after workers rejected his proposal of a 7% wage increase over four years (unions want a 6% immediate increase). In 1995 a train strike paralyzed France and forced the government to back down from its proposed reform of the railway sector. GDP grew by 1.9%

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How to Reduce Primary Care Doctors’ Workloads While Improving Care

Harvard Business Review

Health care has proved resistant to a similar transition, although everyone would benefit. However, this approach piled more responsibility on an already-taxed primary care system and was inefficient because it didn’t reflect the do-it-yourself trends observed in retail, travel, and finance.

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What All Great Leaders Have In Common | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

I'm so curious it's embarrassing, when I visit a house and I pass a bookcase in the hall I cannot resist scanning their shelves to the point of rudeness to see if there's a good book in there which I haven't read yet. All they read is commercial offers, proposals, etc. They haven't read a book in years.

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China’s New Development Bank Is a Wake-Up Call for Washington

Harvard Business Review

But in past weeks, it seems that the movie in Asia has been on fast-forward around global development and financing. resistance to the AIIB is founded on rational principles. technology and communications companies. And once again, the U.S. is scrambling to catch up. The argument for U.S. ” A weaker U.S.

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What CEO Activism Looks Like in the Trump Era

Harvard Business Review

The technology sector takes the lead. The technology sector has been the front-runner in terms of speaking out on these five issues. The finance sector has also been active in responding on all five occasions. But tech isn’t the only sector speaking out. CEOs from companies such as Goldman Sachs (e.g.,

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