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0508 | Orly Lobel: Full Transcript

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Actually, reading the book reminded me of this old anecdote that I heard one time, a conversation between a sort of unnamed CEO and an unnamed CFO and essentially, the CFO was asking, “What happens if we invest all this money to develop our people and they leave?” and the CEO’s response is, “Well, what happens if we don’t and they stay?”.

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

This was just one round in a developing fight over the rules and norms that govern the international political economy. Writing in 1979, Roger Hansen (in Beyond the North-South Stalemate ) succinctly characterized the choices faced by developed and developing countries in the face of these demands.

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"Feminine" Values Can Give Tomorrow's Leaders an Edge

Harvard Business Review

But as developed nations restructure from manufacturing to knowledge and services, my bet is on the moms, or more specifically, women — and men who can think like them. While leaders spend considerable time and effort trying to envision markets and pushing out innovation, empathy can often generate simple, yet breakthrough ideas.

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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

There is little consensus as to whether firms that find themselves spun off from other companies – either as new, standalone companies, or under the stewardship of new parent companies – perform better or worse than they did before.

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How the U.S., the EU, and Japan Are Trying to Rein in China’s State Capitalism

Harvard Business Review

EU, and Japan want to make such practices subject to the same rules as government subsidies to SOEs and to private firms but are still trying to reach a consensus on the best ways to do that. Although the U.S., ” These subsidies are a major problem. The most likely candidates to join soon are Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and Mexico.