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Why America Is Losing Its Entrepreneurial Edge

Harvard Business Review

As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market. In pharmaceuticals, the largest company, Pfizer, is the result of decades of mergers. Economy Entrepreneurship Finance' This paper by the Richmond Fed shows how from 1960 to 2005, the U.S. Consolidation of the financial sector has led to similar dynamics in other industries.

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The Sequestration Cuts that Are Harming Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Between October 1 and 17, the federal government ceased all nonessential operations because of a partisan stalemate over Obamacare. noted the irony that because of sequester cuts, NIH funding was reduced for the research that resulted in Yale’s James Rothman sharing in the 2013 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Cuts to 2013 budget: $11.08

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What to Know About Doing Business in Iran

Harvard Business Review

sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. However, oil prices have dropped more than 60% since the interim nuclear deal in November 2013. And Danish pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk is building on its Iran presence by doubling local staff to nearly 300 and investing $76 million in a new factory.

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What Is Organizational Culture? And Why Should We Care?

Harvard Business Review

Beginning May 1, 2013, I facilitated a discussion around this question on LinkedIn. Organizational culture is shaped by and overlaps with other cultures — especially the broader culture of the societies in which it operates. finance vs. marketing) and units (e.g. The cultures of organizations are never monolithic.