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What Corporations Can Learn From a 4,000-Person Parade Extravaganza (Seriously)

Harvard Business Review

Sena, a supervisor in a company that sells credit to the upcoming Brazilian middle class, thinks corporations underplay this element and rely too much on the motivational power of financial incentives. This is especially true in emerging-market countries where the workforce has experienced great change and dislocation.

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To Reform Capitalism, CEOs Should Champion Structural Reforms

Harvard Business Review

Its weaknesses, like short-termism, speculative trading, absentee ownership, profit- and shareholder-centric orientation, inability to account for non-monetary value, exploitation of labor, and extractive use of natural resources are creating too many disruptions across the globe for the model to survive. Educate and Motivate Others.

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Do CEOs Really Have the Power to Raise Wages?

Harvard Business Review

It’s hard to imagine the same thing happening in the market for soybeans. To this way of thinking, no single firm sets wages; the price of labor is set in a competitive market. If that’s true, firms can’t raise wages much above market rates without hurting their competitiveness.

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