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February 24, 2017 Chinese and American Consumers Have Different Ideas About What Makes a Product Creative By Jennifer Mueller What one culture loves, the other might see as trivial.

Government If Democrats Want to Challenge Trump, They Need a New Strategy by Gautam Mukunda And they have to start by prioritizing. Executive compensation Why We Need to Stop Obsessing Over CEO Pay Ratios by Alex Edmans Other metrics matter more. Reorganization Assessment: How Successful Was Your Company's Reorg? by Stephen Heidari-Robinson, Suzanne Heywood Only 8% deliver the expected results. Time management 3 Ways to Get More Done Right Now by Kabir Sehgal What to do when a deadline is looming. Diversity Research: Arab Inventors Make the U.S. More Innovative by Sami Mahroum, Georg Zahradnik, Bernhard Dachs Patent data illustrates their outsize contributions.

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