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The Challenges GM Is Facing, and the Reasoning Behind Its Plant Closures

Harvard Business Review

And the same applies to the affected workers: The tight labor market means there are opportunities for those who go through retraining. Another issue involves reallocating resources in the face of fundamental market shifts. But markets and tastes shift, and changing assets and company processes is hard. government.

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0508 | Orly Lobel: Full Transcript

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How are some of the best companies restructuring themselves to make use of this interesting finding? It’s exciting times right now for innovation research and a lot of different great researchers are looking at this very question of how do you structure the relationship between individuals in the job market and the firm, the talent wars.

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How Korea Can Avoid Japan’s Economic Mistakes

Harvard Business Review

This instability meant that Japan was unable to iron out a national consensus on its reform plan, or implement reforms in the long run. Massive layoffs ensued, and the labor market turned flexible far too rapidly, with many formerly middle-class workers losing permanent contracts and reliable salaries. Economy Global business'

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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 Structured Debate Helps Your Team Grow

Harvard Business Review

Once a team has reached, or appears to have reached, a consensus, it can be very hard for any individual to challenge the group’s interpretation of reality or predictions about the future — or to push back on what the group plans to do (or not do) — without running the risk of being perceived as a heretic or becoming a scapegoat.

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. That's correct so far as it goes —but it doesn't go nearly far enough.

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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.