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Business Book Review: Lords of Strategy

Management Consulted

This week’s post is on Lords of Strategy - written by Walter Kiechel III , a journalist for 30 years, serving as an editor of Fortune and editorial director of Harvard Business Publishing. It was interesting to know that private equity firms are among the largest clients of the strategy consulting giants.

Strategy 139
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The Tightrope Google Has to Walk in China

Harvard Business

The company last entered China in 2006 with a censored search engine, but pulled the plug on the operation four years later after it discovered that human-rights activists’ Gmail accounts had been hacked. Intellectual property theft. It is well-known that the Chinese government en gages extensively in IP theft.

Ethics 28
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Clean Energy Transition: Business Risks and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

Figure 2 : France’s primary energy supply, 1971 – 2006. Innovation will be required to facilitate the rapid forced energy transition called for by international bodies, and the pace of innovation can be accelerated if it enjoys support from governments in the form of grants, subsidies, and intellectual property protections.

Energy 88
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What a Changing NAFTA Could Mean for Doing Business in Mexico

Harvard Business

My firm, Frontier Strategy Group (FSG), expects that formal talks will begin in late August or early September, after the required 90-day waiting period. Indeed, on May 18 the Trump administration notified the U.S. Congress of its intent to begin the process.