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The Cure for Self-Inflicted Complexity

Harvard Business Review

Inter-domain complexity challenges us whenever a hospital patient has co-morbidities (heart and liver problems for example), or a business problem spans marketing and finance, or a political problem bridges foreign relations and domestic economics. Among them will be a common sense that complexity is dropping, not rising.

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Unify Your Global Company Through a Common Language

Harvard Business Review

Would you launch a new product with software delivering orders to everyone from development to marketing? The most talented individuals in industries such as technology and finance spoke English, either as a first or second language. out of a possible 990 in February 2013. Many had been educated in English-speaking institutions.

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The Benefits of Hiring Your Best Customers

Harvard Business Review

I’m talking about the superconsumers who are inside your organization, working at every level: the fashionista who works in the mail room at the headquarters of an apparel company, or the finance manager who works for a pork brand and who eats three pounds of bacon in any given week. There can be a lot of stress in this industry.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

He got his PhD at Yale under Shiller’s supervision in 1984, but since then he has also done a lot of work expanding on Fama’s ideas about risk and return, some of it co-authored with Fama’s son-in-law and University of Chicago finance colleague, John Cochrane. And that’s what these guys [the 2013 Nobel winners] did.

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How the Carl Icahns of the World Benefit Firms but Not Workers

Harvard Business Review

There are two stories you can tell about finance in America. The number of companies targeted by activist hedge funds has increased dramatically since then, to more than 200 in 2013. “If we don’t think the market income is high enough let’s top that up,” he suggested. eBay is a recent example.

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