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The 3 Things CEOs Worry About the Most

Harvard Business Review

Please note that titles used here reflect the positions the individuals held in 2013, when we conducted the interviews for a separate article ). Randall Stephenson of AT&T explained, “We had 270,000 people we employed around the globe. So the challenge was to have the broad marketing strategies with local adaptations.”

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The Rise, Fall, and Rebirth of the U.S. Antitrust Movement

Harvard Business Review

Adopting the Chicago School’s assumptions of self-correcting markets, composed of rational, self-interested market participants, some courts and enforcers sacrificed important political, social, and moral values to promote certain economic beliefs. Competition, for them, was innately effective.