Thought Leadership
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Patient Family Ownership Matters in Times of Crisis
Family firms, especially highly leveraged ones, have not been immune to the challenges posed by recessions and financial crises
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Whole Foods' John Mackey Is Out to Change American Business
John Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods Market chain, has loftier goals than getting Americans to eat healthy foods, one of the missions of his grocery empire. He is out to change American business as well, putting it on the path to higher consciousness
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A Winning Combination: Sales and Marketing
All too often, organisations find that they have a marketing function inside sales, and a sales function inside marketing
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Uncovering Your Passions and Their Applicability
Some guidelines to help a person rediscover the path to passion
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Web 2.0 Innovation in the Banking Industry
Web 2.0 innovation and transformation journey to fuel growth and expand current offerings in financial services
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Stretch the Competitive Playing Field Beyond the Market
Activists and NGOs can impact your firm’s reputation and its ability to carry out strategic projects
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Joseph Stiglitz: Developing Nations Need to Attempt to Reverse Natural Resource Curse
Developing nations need to embrace economic, political processes to reverse natural resource curse, says Nobel Prize-winning economist
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Peers Influence Decision to Become an Entrepreneur
Why do some geographic areas — such as California’s Silicon Valley — produce so many entrepreneurial companies?
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Robert Shiller: Economists Need to Take a Closer Look at How People Make Decisions
Decades of economic research have assumed people pursue their goals in a rational manner, discounting the effects of emotion, bias, error, and other irrational forces. Robert Shiller, Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at Yale University, argues that economists need to take a closer look at how people make decisions
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Family Values: Leading the Way Out of the Downturn
Family-owned businesses have suffered along with everyone else, but are able to leverage a competitive advantage to ensure they survive and prosper