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Corporations: Lessons from a College Football Halftime

Michael Lee Stallard

Survivors who take part in the filming or go onto the football field for the halftime show report that it is a life-affirming experience that helps them heal. For example, if they need marketing help, send a team of marketing experts from your organization. Chicago, and at the Rose Bowl in Los Angeles.

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Why Business is Stuck on Income Inequality

Harvard Business Review

Martin Sorrell, the CEO of advertising and public relations giant WPP, was just at the Sundance Film Festival, where he saw a documentary called The Flaw. Financial market deregulation, tax-code changes, and all manner of other policy choices in the have promoted inequality in the U.S., as Jacob S.

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Make Your Innovative Idea Seem Less Terrifying

Harvard Business Review

Four years ago, Craig Hatkoff, co-founder of the Tribeca Film Festival, approached me about a brainstorm: an event recognizing and celebrating breakthrough innovators. This led to the HR VP brokering a meeting with the CEO and an invitation to make a formal presentation to the Executive Committee. If you say we should, let’s do it.

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Great Leaders Know When to Forgive

Harvard Business Review

Far from taking revenge for the protest (or walking away from the deal), Shinhan agreed to raise wages, promise no layoffs, have equal representation of both banks on key committees, and wait three years for full integration. These and other investments in the future generated a significant payoff.

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What Design Thinking Is Doing for the San Francisco Opera

Harvard Business Review

For instance, the marketing person was on the programming team, and the woman who would be responsible for programming at the new SFO venue joined the experience team. ” The entire group then celebrated the committee that had the most failures—and celebrated the freedom to experiment and try things outside their comfort zones.