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Are CEOs Really Necessary Anymore?

Strategy Driven

Supply chains are linked to these inputs, as is every other variable the CEO needs to be concerned about, from available corporate resources to stock price. As futurist Ray Kurzweil observed in 2005, in the near future, machine intelligence is going to exceed human intelligence. CEO’s Role- Wisdom and Innovation.

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Why America Is Losing Its Entrepreneurial Edge

Harvard Business Review

This paper by the Richmond Fed shows how from 1960 to 2005, the U.S. New, small entrants into the market will be at pains to form relationships with such firms, and the power imbalance is effectively a monopsony — sell to us at our price, on our invoice terms, or get lost. Economy Entrepreneurship Finance'

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What Makes New Orleans a Startup City to Rival the “Big Three”

Harvard Business Review

based companies that they finance,” according to a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Prior to Hurricane Katrina, in 2005, New Orleans was a place where too many people accepted that the city’s zenith had passed over 150 years ago. to live on the sort of shoestring budget that startups demand.

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Many Companies Still Don’t Know How to Compete in the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

Since its bankruptcy in 2012, Kodak has been a poster child for innovation incompetence: After inventing the world’s first digital camera in 1975, the conventional story goes, myopic managers allowed a bloated company to let inertia drive it off a cliff. By 2005, Kodak ranked No. A misunderstood story. digital-camera sales (No.

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Apple, Don't Weaken the Garden Walls

Harvard Business Review

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.

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

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. The choice of who will lead the World Bank has been made. From less than 10% of world exports, they account for nearly 20%.

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Many CEOs Aren’t Breakthrough Innovators (and That’s OK)

Harvard Business Review

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D.

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