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How Employees Respond When Activist Investors Get Involved

The Horizons Tracker

While my original article illustrated the ability of investors to prompt firms to take a more positive stance on areas such as climate change or diversity, the INSEAD paper highlights how they can also force a more short-term approach in order to secure financial returns. Lasting impact. Talent loss.

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Meet My Next Group of Coaches!

Marshall Goldsmith

This diverse group of coaches are some of the top people in their fields and will come from around the world to join me in Phoenix June 23-25! Alexander Osterwalder – Thinkers 50 #1 Strategy Thinker 2015-17, million-selling author Business Model Generation and Value Proposition Design , inventor Business Model Canvas.

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Why Mass Migration Is Good for Long-Term Economic Growth

Harvard Business Review

By one estimate , the number of international migrants worldwide reached 244 million in 2015, up from 222 million in 2010, and 173 million in 2000. In fact, whether cultural diversity carries more economic benefits than costs is still a hotly disputed question among scholars. Higher degrees of fractionalization indicate more diversity.

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How Nextdoor Addressed Racial Profiling on Its Platform

Harvard Business Review

On March 3, 2015, hyperlocal social network Nextdoor announced that it had raised $110 million in venture capital. Agile teams benefit from different perspectives, skills, and expertise, so the co-founders assembled a small, diverse team to tackle the issue. chuttersnap/unsplash. This last step proved to be the thorniest.

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Why Gender Balance Can’t Wait

Harvard Business Review

The World Economic Forum’s recent Global Gender Gap Report 2015 gives us a wealth of detail about the continued worldwide imbalance in gender equality and what it means for the future. Encouragingly, in FY14 71% of gender-balanced groups saw positive operating profit during the last three consecutive years, versus 60% for others.

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How Netflix Expanded to 190 Countries in 7 Years

Harvard Business Review

By 2017 it was operating in over 190 countries, and today close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. before 2010, and in only 50 countries by 2015. internet companies have scaled internationally, of course (Facebook and Google are two obvious examples).

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How Netflix Expanded to 190 Countries in 8 Years

Harvard Business Review

It operates in over 190 countries, and close to 73 million of its some 130 million subscribers are outside the U.S. before 2010, and in only 50 countries by 2015. internet companies have scaled internationally, of course (Facebook and Google are two obvious examples). Fernando Trabanco Fotografía/Getty Images.