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AUGUST 1, 2016

In 1973/4 I participated in an Overseas Fellowship at General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) in a work/study cooperative programme in Flint, Michigan, which was the birthplace of GM. This programme which moved me through all major departments (Engineering, Finance, Supply, Vehicle Assembly, IS&T etc.)

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Gordon Restructuring Leadership CEO 150

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 28, 2014

That’s the argument of British money manager George Cooper ’s very interesting if less-than-felicitously titled new book, Money, Blood and Revolution: How Darwin and the Doctor of King Charles I Could Turn Economics Into a Science. That evidence has just kept on piling up in finance. Economy Finance Risk management'

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

It is something I call community financing. Community financing refers to a form of cash-flow that channels the financial resources of the savers of a community into the well-being of that community via economic activities, which members of the community believe should be undertaken and therefore willingly supports with their savings.

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Banking Finance Globalization Film 9

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

It is something I call community financing. Community financing refers to a form of cash-flow that channels the financial resources of the savers of a community into the well-being of that community via economic activities, which members of the community believe should be undertaken and therefore willingly supports with their savings.

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Banking Finance Globalization Film 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

In the mid-Atlantic region of the United States, an effort is under way to get insurers, providers, employers, and unions to cooperate in creating a system that can reduce total health care costs and premiums while achieving better outcomes. With that in mind, they must seek four changes. Establish Common Goals.

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Health Care Cooper Insurance Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

For companies, smart cities represent major business opportunities — and not only for tech firms selling systems to government agencies. Even if they don’t become providers of systems or services, many companies will need to adapt in some way as cities become more digitally connected.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 14, 2017

Even the near-term outlook has been quite negative: A 2016 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said 9% of jobs in the 21 countries that make up its membership could be automated. Four years ago, an Oxford University study predicted 47% of jobs could be automated by 2033.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

rogue traders in finance). blaming subordinates for any failure), undermining cooperation, psychological safety, trust in coworkers, and the ability to admit uncertainty or mistakes. Organizations rely on cooperative teamwork to succeed. The business case against masculinity contests. with job consequences) or informally (e.g.,

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Organization Cooper Bottom-up Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 30, 2018

India’s finance ministry has proposed such an approach to the central bank. The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) region, comprising 27 countries including the United States, illustrates the potential for a bottom-up approach. A similar bottom-up approach could play a role in the governance of cross-border data flows.

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Supply Chain Globalization GAAP Policies 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2011

A better understanding of the drivers of behavior is needed for both banks and consumers to understand risk, and for the financial system to provide timely and targeted interventions. Yet unlike in finance, where distributing risk across institutions is the goal, in drug development the focus is on isolating risk.

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Banking Pharmaceuticals Microfinance Risk Management 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

In the medium to long term the new government (or its successor) can succeed in keeping Greece in the Euro-zone and restoring national and international confidence in its finances if and only if: It can implement the structural reforms and complies with the other conditions required by the EU and the IMF in order to provide the funds; It can establish (..)

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Crisis GDP Consensus Politics 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. Rich countries could simply reject the agenda, or they could co-opt a few key developing countries into the existing system.

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Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

For example, those working to collect farm data by partnering with farming cooperatives and communities are largely protected from what happens online. Startups that operate in sectors with strong physical elements still have promising businesses despite using the internet to drive them. Major investors, typically from outside the U.S.,

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Globalization Banking Entrepreneur Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Of course, this system has turned China into a manufacturing juggernaut. Simply because of its size, it commands attention in global negotiations on trade, finance, and the environment. This cooperation can endure, but only if Americans and Chinese disabuse themselves of the notion that they are locked in zero-sum economic competition.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2016

But a reform must go beyond simply replicating processes in the SEC, NASDAQ, and NYSE; it must pioneer new ways to address problems in places with fledgling legal systems and criminal justice institutions. To reduce the insurance premiums, traded companies must cooperate and engage better with auditors.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2017

Lacking capital, truckers purchased new vehicles through financing provided by these very same trucking companies. As a result, the practice reduces funding to those social insurance systems. This involved information sharing, training, and in some cases cooperative investigations focused on the misclassification problem.

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Document Insurance Construction Cooper 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 5, 2012

Yet it seems as if Germany has managed to get ahead on this very issues, largely by applying a much more fine-tuned and open-minded level of cooperation between unions, employers, and the government. In addition, Swedes have long prided themselves on pairing a thorough embrace of capitalism with an equally strong sense of social balance.

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Policies Marketing Learning-by-Doing Cooper 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

At the end of the day, organizations are collections of people; this means that superior organizations need more effective ways for them to cooperate and work toward a common goal. My corporate finance colleague Alex Edmans has also systematically examined the impact of intangible resources on firm performance.

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Sports Management Competitive Advantage Mintzberg 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2017

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and prominent board members, with the cooperation and support of the head of HR, have initiated an investigation. All of this indicates that Uber leaders prioritized immediately useful services like recruitment over, for example, legal compliance systems, audits, and leadership development.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Looking forward toward the next decade and beyond, we are seeing countries increasingly prize sovereignty over multilateralism, national interests over international cooperation, and local constituencies over global populations. Gen 1 is often overtly anti-American, thanks to an education system that consistently frames the US as an enemy.

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Globalization Class Consensus Outsourcing 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Or are they effectively allowed to circumvent the enterprise software systems and safeguards that are supposed to prevent abuse? The Googles, Amazons, Netflixes and Facebooks make reviews central to how their coders communicate, cooperate and collaborate. Oh those rogues! Are they authentically that clever? Trust but verify.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Second, the new system depends on publishers playing ball using the metatags. Thus, the whole mechanism depends on the development of a norm of cooperation among publishers, just as similar norms have developed in academia. Second, the new system depends on publishers playing ball using the metatags.

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Guidelines Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence Balanced Scorecard 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

But those impressive numbers may be eclipsed by a revolution in venture financing that is only being held back by final government approval: start-ups raising actual investment funds from individuals in exchange for equity or a share of profits. How big a deal is this “democratization” of finance? Last week, the U.S.

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Disruptive Innovation Finance Venture Capitalist Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 24, 2018

cooperation on global trade will be compromised for some time if the tariffs go into effect. SOEs receive preferential access to land, finance, telecom, hydrocarbons, and electricity. Besides whatever damage the conflict could do to U.S. In recent years, U.S. imports of goods made in China by companies that benefited from $7.3

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GDP Policies Supply Chain Cooper 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

What got Europe into its current mess was pretty much the same thing that slammed the US economy: a real estate bubble financed by profligate private banks. Under the EU's system, a tiny country's economic woes (Greece) can threaten the economy of the entire EU. That wouldn't happen in a truly federal system. Backdoor autocracy.

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Real Estate Banking Politics Crisis 10

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2018

Agricultural cooperatives Land O’Lakes and Ocean Spray have become major players in dairy production and fruit farming, earning hundreds of millions in annual revenue. That’s because a growing number of funders, both social impact funds and traditional institutions, are interested in financing workers’ takeover of a company.

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ESOP Company Cooper IAM 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

of Americans aged 15 to 64 had jobs in 2011, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. My guess is an unbalanced, still finance-heavy economy that produces too few middle-income jobs, plus educational and job-training systems that don't prepare people well enough for the jobs that do exist.

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Insurance Policies Bottom-up Health Care 16

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 10, 2014

Since humans began cooperating, and also began failing to, there have been, among the under-appreciated drivers of human misery, the three Rs of payback: retaliation, redirected aggression, and revenge. Meanwhile, there is no doubt that the residents of Fort Lee, NJ were innocent, drive-by victims of displaced aggression.

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