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June 26, 2013 The Urban Sustainability Opportunity By Video John Macomber, senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, explains why the private sector needs to focus on city-level improvements.

Networking Should I Accept that LinkedIn Invitation? by Alexandra Samuel The "favor test" will tell you the answer. Marketing Why Consumers May Feel Awkward When You Give Them Gifts by Andrew O'Connell It takes just one observer to make a gift recipient feel uncomfortable. Innovation What the Companies Winning at Big Data Do Differently by Satya Ramaswamy Simply spending more is not a strategy. Strategy To Overcome Your Company's Limits, Look to Symbiosis by Rafe Sagarin Symbiosis is a powerful force in business. Here are six guidelines for forming adaptable symbiotic relationships. Business education How Drucker Thought About Complexity by John Hagel III In the forces driving our age of discontinuity, he saw the need for management to change. Managing people The Hidden Side of Meetings by Ron Ashkenas The non-rational dynamics not covered in standard meeting manuals. Entrepreneurship Arab Entrepreneurs Spread the "Power of Yalla" by Habib Haddad Tough conditions create more resilient, quick-thinking businesses. IT management The Escalating Cost of Software Malice by Andrew O'Connell A graphical look at types of data breaches and their cost.

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