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Are CEOs Really Necessary Anymore?

Strategy Driven

As futurist Ray Kurzweil observed in 2005, in the near future, machine intelligence is going to exceed human intelligence. BDAI (for short) is excellent at making sense out of the current state. CEO’s Role- Wisdom and Innovation. The second is to lead innovation. He named that moment, the Singularity. Same for Elon Musk.

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When Treating Workers Well Leads to More Innovation

Harvard Business Review

There’s a reason companies like Google and Facebook offer their employees so many perks, according to new research: firms that treat workers better are more innovative. This is not the first paper to connect the interests of workers with innovation. and abroad on innovation. It looked at U.S.

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Private Equity Can Make Firms More Innovative

Harvard Business Review

And a recent working paper out of the Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics ( DICE ), a think tank of sorts, focuses on the latter by exploring whether leveraged buyouts (LBOs) make firms more innovative. PE investors don’t typically invest in firms known for innovation.

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Why America Is Losing Its Entrepreneurial Edge

Harvard Business Review

Hathaway and Litan stay close to the data in this work and stop short of speculating about causes of this trend. This paper by the Richmond Fed shows how from 1960 to 2005, the U.S. When a company had dozens of potential competitors in various geographic regions, there was an incentive to innovate before the other guy does.

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The Top Five Career Regrets

Harvard Business Review

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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The Real Reasons Companies Are So Focused on the Short Term

Harvard Business Review

Some argue that profits are stagnant because of short-termism—that decades of focusing on current profits over long-run innovativeness has resulted, now, in companies that are hollowed out. Below, I’ll expand further on these trends and explain how reversing them would reduce short-termism and revive growth.

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Apple, Don't Weaken the Garden Walls

Harvard Business Review

In their piece, they observe the following: In the short term, however, the current team might actually outperform in the absence of its mercurial and stubborn mentor. 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.