Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2013

We all have a stake in the infrastructure surrounding us — the roads, buildings, power lines, and telephone networks that we rely on daily. In Jakarta, from 2005-2009, the number of cars rose by 22% annually, while the distance of usable roads actually declined (PDF). an estimated $100 billion per year.

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Transportation GDP Globalization Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

These innovative players, such as OnDeck, Funding Circle, and Fundera are disrupting the market by using technology to solve problems that have made small business lending costly for traditional banks. After all, isn’t the customer’s voice relevant if you are going to finance a plumber or restaurant?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Also, while China’s outward-bound foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown from an annual average of below $3 billion before 2005 to more than $60 billion in 2010 and 2011, only one third of Chinese companies have seen international revenue meet expectations, according to Accenture. Rebrand from the inside out.

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Brand Globalization Company Development 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 18, 2012

Earlier this week, on April 16, the US nominee Jim Yong Kim was selected over Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo. Conventional wisdom has it that the traditional arrangement raises hackles because it is a dated relic of the bipolar Cold War Western power era.

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Globalization Banking Restructuring Politics 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

I had just finished a guest lecture on business and innovation at Parson's School for Design , and a particularly attentive front-row audience member kicked off question time with the curliest one of the day. As their personal finances shored up, professionals I surveyed yearned for more control over their lives. The logical answer?

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Career Golden Handcuff Short-term CEO 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2011

Well, Burrows was converted to the stores, at least: in a glowing 2005 piece, he professed that Apple had discovered what surely must be the future of retail. Take health care — as a patient, you've got to coordinate the visits, get the prescriptions, keep track of the appointments, figure out the financing, and so on.

Competitive Advantage 13

Competitive Advantage Software Health Care Long-term 13

Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 8, 2010

It’s that power of the imagination, and while it can create a magical (and admittedly sometimes scary) candy factory, it can also create a similarly wondrous “idea factory&# that can drive leadership success, and long-term profitability. I write a lot on innovative thinking. Why Willy, and why now?

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Leadership Idea Generation Open-book BHAG 283

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 18, 2011

British law created the Community Interest Company in 2005, and a number of U.S. And given the preponderance of such individuals, by creating the infrastructure of a fourth sector, we will unleash the power of the market, entrepreneurship, and innovation to confront our critical challenges and make the course correction capitalism requires.

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CEO Incubator Supply Chain Entrepreneur 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2016

public companies from the 1960s up to 2005 in HBR: “Since the mid-1990s, a new competitive dynamic has emerged — greater gaps between the leaders and laggards in an industry, more concentrated and winner-take-all markets, and more churn among rivals in a sector.” The competition story revolves around digital technology.

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