Chris Brady

JANUARY 2, 2011

" and to push for political actions that would seek to "redistribute" it "more fairly." Many people will resist the idea that they even have blessings at all, instead focusing upon their problems. Some hear the word and immediately consider it to be something possessed by someone more fortunate.

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Rogers Short-term Blog Letter 124

N2Growth Blog

JUNE 11, 2010

I would also suggest resisting the temptation to have all your communications be self-serving. Jerry Anderson, CCIM We are closing a $4million office building next week as a direct contact from my Twitter tweets about distressed real estate situations and the FDIC taking over banks. What more proof does one need?

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Media Influence Blog Real Estate 407

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Ironically, Brazil was already attempting to retrench and adjust, but bank retrenchment and "redlining"—treating the whole region as being the same—resulted in over 25 countries falling into arrears by 1983. Central banks pitched in with a $1.85 Only in the face of concerns about Mexico's political stability did the U.S.

Crisis 12

Crisis Banking Politics GDP 12

Harvard Business Review

JULY 1, 2016

The problem may lie in the constraints endemic to identity politics. Another was Geri Thomas, former Chief Diversity Officer at Bank of America, started at the bank when she was a sophomore at Georgia State (and the bank was still Citizens and Southern National). Roughly twenty women helm a Fortune 500 company.

Banking 10

Banking Bond Diversity Resistance 10

Mills Scofield

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

While focused on the specific need for this specific customer, we begin a broader look at the “Tissue Banking” industry and reached out to several other companies and organizations including Community Tissue Services in Dayton and the American Association of Tissue Banks.

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Succession Industry Stage-Gate CFO 70

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2015

This has certainly been the picture painted by Syriza, the left-wing political party of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, and by many friends of Greece and progressive economists. Many in the press fingered excessive and ill-judged lending by Greek banks as a prime cause of the crisis. The reality, though, is more complicated.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Tourism Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Greece is unquestionably in a catastrophic spiraling economic, social and political crisis. Most people rightly blame the highly polarized and corrupt culture of our politics for the mess. Unemployment has reached an historical record of 18.4%, 30% of whom are below 30 and continues to rise. Consumption continues to drop.

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Crisis GDP Consensus Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 22, 2011

The microfinance industry has in just a few years gone from making headlines for the Nobel Peace Prize to stories about limited impact, allegedly abusive tactics, client suicides, government crackdowns, major lenders struggling with insolvency and the forcible removal of Mohammed Yunus as Managing Director of Grameen Bank.

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Microfinance Entrepreneur Crisis Short-term 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The good news is that it is feasible, as long as the right pockets of expertise are tapped (in the World Bank, OECD or IMF, for example) and provided a permanent infrastructure is built in the EU. We are fully aware of the difficulties of such a reform agenda, and of the resistance to change that is likely to emerge.

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Long-term Crisis Politics Resistance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

An expert in banking regulation or solar energy production — or any other niche, challenging area — will find good opportunities to apply their skills. Don’t bank on boards. What’s yours — and how is it compellingly differentiated from the many other portfolios out there? Dorie Clark.

Career 9

Career Succession How To Travel 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2013

That''s been the finding of economists Barry Eichengreen of UC Berkeley, Donghyun Park of the Asian Development Bank in Manila, and Kwanjo Shin of Korea University in Seoul in two recent studies of growth slowdowns in emerging markets around the world. to 8% growth rate.". When that happens, growth tends to slow. Basically, it''s due.

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GDP Banking Finance Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2016

Economic uncertainty around the globe has raised concerns that consumers could take cash out of banks – especially in negative interest rate envrionments — and hoard it. Denmark, Sweden, and Norway are already considering it , while the European Central Bank is considering getting rid of large-denomination bills.

Banking 8

Banking Cost Policies Uncertainty 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2011

. — the close alliance between the Chinese government and Chinese companies — whose motivations are not merely commercial but also political. Consequently, the SOEs' recent globalization drive has triggered off several controversies and resulted in a political backlash in several countries.

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Globalization Decentralization Politics Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 22, 2017

” Scott Edinger, the founder of Edinger Consulting Group and the author of The Hidden Leader , says that the resistance to sales stems from an “antiquated idea that selling is pushing people to buy something they don’t want, don’t need, or can’t afford.” ” But that notion is outdated.

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Skills How To Brainstorming Case Study 21

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Most relevant to stunted growth, however, is cultural resistance — the inertial apathy of traditional financial players who are wary of novel, risky investment structures and skeptical about trading some amount of profitability for social return. However, impact investing’s legitimacy as an alternative asset class remains elusive.

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Banking Commitment Class Entrepreneur 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2016

Less than 24 hours after the bombings, new incorporation papers had been filed, new bank accounts were opened, and a singular vehicle for receiving funds had been established — it was the most we could do on short notice and with no administrative funds — on a bare-bones website linked to a new PayPal account. But that took time.

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Bureaucracy Banking Chief Operating Officer Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2016

Do we go along to get along or do we resist? Here are some tactics, gleaned from the literature on political activism, presented in sequence from low to high heat. Particularly if we are new to a job, low on the totem pole, highly dependent on the position, or wishing to make a good impression, we face a tough choice.

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Tactics Shaw Ethics Morale 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

What helps a tech path cross over from resistance to inevitability? it takes a huge phone bank of people willing to plough through a lot of hang-ups in order to generate the same number of completed surveys. The polling companies that actually did include cell phone users did so at an enormous price (between 1.8

Benchmarking 8

Benchmarking Bottom-up Media Survey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2015

In other words, if your daughter is complaining about working until midnight as an investment banking intern, ask her if she really enjoys the work. Resist the urge to relate everything back to your own experience – that can come across as, “Here’s how I did it, so it’s the road you should take, too.”

Career 8

Career Follow-up Advice Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

It was originally seen as a good thing – a way of allowing organizations to survive changes in leadership, and to resist the capriciousness of powerful individual leaders with vested interests. Everyone we spoke to in the company was polite, helpful, and increasingly apologetic. And yet somehow they couldn’t pay us.

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Bureaucracy Chief Financial Officer Delegation Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2016

Due to the secret nature of their work, the employees confide mostly in one another, creating skepticism of outsiders and an understandable resistance to doing the life-and-death business of intelligence in a new way. Here is where the president’s political lens made a critical difference. In Afghanistan or Iraq, where U.S.

Management 8

Management Operations Planning Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2017

They have spoken out on social, political, and environmental issues, such as climate change, LGBT rights, equal pay, immigration, gun control, and race relations. Each political event produced its own unique stamp, including legal briefs, open letters, resignations from presidential councils, and the usage of new hashtags on social media.

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CEO Travel Letter Diversity 8