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Mike Splinter, CEO of Applied Materials, On What It Will Take to Go Solar

From Strategy + Business 6/16/09 The CEO of Applied Materials offers a road map for the adoption of solar energy technologies in the United States. After years of being noncommittal — if not downright neglectful — about solar energy, the United States now has a new chance to become . . .


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Boston Consulting Group: The Emerging Markets are Still Emerging Despite Crisis

April 23, 2009 Emerging markets and the indigenous companies in those markets that are attempting to become global corporations have not been eliminated from the international competitive equation, says Harold G. Sirkin, a Chicago-based senior partner with The Boston Consulting Group. . . .


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IBM’s Message to CEOs: Don’t Freeze Up. Seize the Moment.

MARCH 23, 2009--No stranger to industry transformations and economic cycles, IBM has recently conducted research to help determine what separates winning companies from the rest of the pack in times of great upheaval such as these. As part of this study, IBM examined large U.S. publicly . . .


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What CEOs Need To Know About Social Media

MARCH 5, 2009--Far from representing a threat, the rise of Facebook, Twitter, blogging and other forms of social media create opportunities for chief executive officers to alter their organizations and communicate far more effectively with key constituencies, says Matthew Fraser, research . . .


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