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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Jim Kim – 12th President, the World Bank. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. Rod MacKenzie – Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer, member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team. Former Executive VP and Head of Strategy & Transformation at TMB Bank.

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How Big Data Brings Marketing and Finance Together

Harvard Business Review

Rajamannar involved finance early. To spearhead analytic efforts, he assigned a finance person – who was already embedded in marketing – to create an ROI evaluation framework and integrated her deeper into the marketing function. MasterCard had always been a data-driven organization. Inside Intel. The result has been transformational.

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Using Games to Get a Handle on Bank Risk

Harvard Business Review

Bank marketing materials focus on the dreams, anxieties and goals of consumers. Most audits and regulations of banks are focused on certifying the integrity of data and controls. The truly critical issue, though, is the integrity of banks' assumptions about consumer behavior.

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The Globalization Backlash Is Reverberating Through Boardrooms

Harvard Business Review

Meanwhile the Institute of International Finance forecasted net capital flows for emerging markets in 2015 would be negative for the first time since 1988. While international lending, as measured by cross-border banking claims at the Bank for International Settlements, has declined $2.6 This year, for example, the U.S.

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What’s Driving Superstar Companies, Industries, and Cities

Harvard Business Review

They come from all regions and sectors and include global banks and manufacturing companies, long-standing Western consumer brands, and fast-growing U.S. Often when superstar cities fall, they tend to be advanced economy cities, replaced by a developing economy city. and Chinese tech firms.

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What to Know About Doing Business in Iran

Harvard Business Review

The economy still hasn’t received a boost from sanctions relief, and many big banks that left the country have not returned. sanctions are delaying these projects being financed. Large European banks in particular are not ready to return to Iran even though they are permitted. However, remaining U.S.

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Enticing the Next Generation of African Leaders

Harvard Business Review

The first part of the conference's message, that the infrastructure of the continent is greatly wanting, was a topic of many panels, including a pair of engaging ones on technology, but it was brought home most vividly in another context, by Thierry Tanoh , a vice president at the International Finance Corp.