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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Former President, Dow Chemical USA. Sanyin Siang – Executive Director of the Duke University Fuqua/Coach K Center on Leadership & Ethics (COLE). Formerly a leader in the automotive, retail, restaurant, media innovation and consulting industries. Deborah Borg – Chief Human Resources & Communications Officer, Bunge Limited.

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Retailers Turn to "Soft Surveillance" to Fight Customer Anonymity

Harvard Business Review

For example, Tesco uses vast data sets culled from decades of customers' Clubcard use to make pricing decisions, influence shoppers to buy specific items, and build loyalty. Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute have created a system of electronic noses that can smell explosives or other chemical substances.

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Don’t Write Off the (Western) Focused Firm Yet

Harvard Business Review

the conglomerate share price is less than the sum of the values of its constituent businesses), we would argue that the economies from leveraging personal relations with external parties are non-existent in these firms. In that same period PPG’s share price has risen by a compound average rate of 6.6%, compared to 5.1%