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Will You Be Writing Off Your Investment in Egypt?

Harvard Business Review

To understand how the current political instability in Egypt will affect the NPV of a foreign subsidiary located there, we should first establish a no-instability benchmark, which assumes that the operation there will generate the same level of profitability (adjusted for inflation) for the rest of time.

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Surgeons Are Using Social Media to Share and Learn New Skills

Harvard Business Review

Learning from others’ experiences is an important aspect of professional development in surgery. That’s why academic surgical departments across the globe hold weekly Morbidity and Mortality (M&M) conferences that gather surgeons together to review particular cases and share ideas for improving their practice.

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How to Design a Corporate Wellness Plan That Actually Works

Harvard Business Review

One of the biggest lessons we learned in the process of creating the report is one-time events masquerading as health promotion programs – that is, activities not integrated into a comprehensive workplace health promotion strategy – are likely to fail. Administering health risk assessments only. Asking for help.

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How Facebook Tries to Prevent Office Politics

Harvard Business Review

Managers focus on building a great team, creating a vision for how that team will execute its goals, and helping the people on that team develop in their careers. ” People not familiar with this strategy might ask, “Then who is in charge? It’s harder for politicians to operate if everyone is on the same page.