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What the Best Transformational Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

The list includes a health care company that was once near bankruptcy (DaVita), a software firm whose stock price stagnated for a decade (Microsoft), a travel website that faced overwhelming competition (Priceline), a food giant that seemed to lose its focus (Danone), and a steel company that faced new pressure from lower-cost rivals (ThyssenKrupp).

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Lots of Companies Still Have No Senior Executives Who Are Women

Harvard Business Review

It’s not a secret that women’s progress into senior leadership roles has been glacially slow. The increase in women’s leadership was most visible in France, Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands, and Sweden, which all saw increases of at least 10 percentage points. That hasn’t happened. Methodology.

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What CEO Activism Looks Like in the Trump Era

Harvard Business Review

In 2015 and 2016, we witnessed dozens of CEOs speaking up against anti-LGBT laws in a handful of states such as Indiana , Georgia , and North Carolina. For example, Google spent a hefty $265 million on diversity programs from 2014 to 2016 alone.) Half of the 153 responses to the travel ban (51%) came from tech companies.

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The H-1B Visa Debate, Explained

Harvard Business Review

It has benefited the tech industry enormously, and other sectors, including health care, science, and finance, have also used it to fill gaps in their workforces. There were approximately 180,000 new H-1B visas issued in 2016, according to State Department data. But in April, just after U.S. Who gets H-1Bs?

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Great Teams Are About Personalities, Not Just Skills

Harvard Business Review

At the start of 2016 Google announced that it had discovered the secret ingredients for the perfect team. travel to Mars, perhaps working for Elon Musk or one of the government space agencies. Google’s recipe of being nice and joining in makes perfect sense (and is hardly counterintuitive).

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Doing Business in a Post-Fidel Cuba

Harvard Business Review

President Obama’s historic visit to Cuba in March 2016 drove excitement for businesses considering the market that the island could become. In April 2016, Cuba held its Seventh Communist Party Congress. The move made it possible to imagine an end to the U.S. An economic crossroads. How to know where the economy is heading.