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Can Corporate Secrecy Bolster Innovation?

The Horizons Tracker

From an investor’s point of view, more information is nearly always a good thing, which is why regulators typically require public companies to make a wide range of disclosures. The researchers examined what happens when South Korean regulators relaxed the reporting requirements relating to the cost of sales of companies.

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How Nonprofit Donations Allow Companies To Influence Policy

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Over the past few years, there has been a growing sense that companies should move away from the Friedman doctrine of only being interested in profits and returns to shareholders, and focus instead on their wider impact upon society. How true is that really, however? Ulterior motives.

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The Name Of The CEO Influences Their Career

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led invasion of Iraq in 2003. CEOs who didn’t start the company and haven’t been in charge for a long time are more affected by last name favorability, especially in companies where regular folks own most of the shares instead of big institutions. companies between 1999 and 2014. ”

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The Risks Of Building Innovation Ecosystems

The Horizons Tracker

The study explores the impact of such ecosystems on other industries, and found that when VC money floods into a region, it produces understandable benefits to some companies, especially those who serviced the wealthy new residents, but other companies did much worse as a result. A common problem. Uneven fortunes.

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2020 Top CHRO List – The People Leaders To Watch

N2Growth Blog

These Human Resource leaders represent the top 25 human resources leaders shaping careers, culture, and talent at the world’s most innovative people driven companies. While Chief Digital/Technology Officers or Chief Marketing Officers are often tagged with the innovator label, it is the CHRO who is the real innovator in 2020.

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The Open Innovation Marketplace: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

The Open Innovation Marketplace: Creating Value in the Challenge Driven Enterprise Alpheus Bingham and Dwayne Spradlin FT Press/Pearson (2011) How and why global networks of highly specialized expertise create value in the challenge driven enterprise In Open Business Models (2003), Henry Chesbrough observes, “An open business model uses a new (..)

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Lessons in Leadership from Ross Perot

Innovation Excellence

In 2003, I sold a company to Perot Systems, the large IT services firm started by Ross Perot, where I then worked for the next four years. The most important lessons of leadership came from the man behind the larger-than-life personality. Although at that time Perot was chairman and eventually became chair emeritus, his personal.