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Sudhir Choudhrie’s Tale of Gratitude, Inspiration, and Changing Lives

Strategy Driven

His journey led him to diverse industries, including tourism with Taj Hotels and Resorts and a stint with Adidas AG in 1995. Through this organization, the family supports medical projects and health education programs globally, including the #OrgansWill campaign in the U.S., and the U.K. Theresa May MP of the U.K.

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What to Know About Doing Business in Iran

Harvard Business Review

Compared to most oil-rich countries in the Middle East, Iran has a diversified economy, its tourism sector is on the verge of a major windfall, and threats to its political stability are in decline. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. sanctions and a fragile economy. However, remaining U.S.

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What You Might Not Know About the Cuban Economy

Harvard Business Review

Cuba projects a population of 10.8 It has tourism—beach and sun and one of the communist world’s last Jurassic political systems—but the real asset is the brains of its people. In 2013 in U.S. Cuba is closing primary schools and opening homes for the elderly, closing pediatric wards and opening geriatric wards.

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China Needs a New Generation of Dreamers (and New Dreams)

Harvard Business Review

in 1999 with the dream of: “changing people’s lives with science and technology” — and then he delivered this in a big way, becoming probably the richest person in China, and the only Chinese member of Forbes ’ “top 12 most powerful entrepreneurs for 2013”. .

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Why Greece and Cyprus May Be Better Off Without the Euro

Harvard Business Review

in 2013; and by an estimated 2.8% An alternate way forward may be to use higher government spending to assist vulnerable people, to lend to business, and to execute projects that inject money into the economy. Yet, Cypriot policymakers had no choice but to accept the harsh terms; the alternative would have been economic collapse.

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Why Your Customers Hate You and How to Fix It

Skip Prichard

And even when we’re connected, we’re often dazed and confused: with more than six billion smartphones projected worldwide by 2020, we’ve succeeded in creating an environment in which we and our employees can, if we want, work 24/7, checking our phones as many as 150 times per day. No wonder we have skills shortages!

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