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If Greece Embraces Uncertainty, Innovation Will Follow

Harvard Business Review

. “Culture” can sound like a catchall, a convenient way to place the blame outside the realm of policy, but I am talking about one specific dimension of culture: avoiding uncertainty. The cultural dimensions identified by Hofstede have been used by more than a 1,000 academic studies. And it all starts in school.

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Study: A CEO’s Decision Making Is Shaped by Whether Their Parents Were Immigrants

Harvard Business Review

Research has long shown that cultural values are deeply rooted and that immigrants to the U.S. In particular, we looked at how different countries compared on 16 cultural values developed by psychologists Geert Hofstede and Shalom Schwartz, the GLOBE Project , and the World Values Survey. For instance, U.S.

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