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Are CEOs Really Necessary Anymore?

Strategy Driven

And, so, before too long, the taxi you’re about to hail in Phoenix, shows up; Poof! As futurist Ray Kurzweil observed in 2005, in the near future, machine intelligence is going to exceed human intelligence. He thought in broad terms about what human beings might do with powerful new tools, and went about creating them.

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Trent Henry on Building Tomorrow’s Leaders

HR Digest

EY has a consistently received a perfect score on the Human Rights Campaign Foundation’s Corporate Equality Index (CEI) since 2005, demonstrating a strong commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Through Henry’s insights, HR professionals gain valuable perspectives on navigating HR leadership in a dynamic environment.

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Walking Away from the Big Bucks in the Pursuit of True Balance.

Women on Business

– Martha Beck Not long ago, my career had been dedicated to sales, mentoring, coaching and leading an exceptional sales force. However, they will rock even louder on my terms as an entrepreneur and professional coach. Toward the end of 2005, I started preparing my exit strategy. Don’t get me wrong, big bucks rock!

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Private Equity Can Make Firms More Innovative

Harvard Business Review

If you ask someone who works in finance (as I had to) about PE and innovation, he or she will likely tell you that PE sponsors aren’t looking for the next big thing—they’re looking for companies that are dominant in a market, aren’t risky, and have a predictable and steady stream of cash to pay back debt.

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When Treating Workers Well Leads to More Innovation

Harvard Business Review

In a recent working paper , currently under review by the Journal of Corporate Finance, researchers from Monash University and LaTrobe University in Australia compared a common measure of worker treatment to patent data, and found that companies with higher worker treatment scores produced more patents, and more highly cited patents.

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What Startup Accelerators Really Do

Harvard Business Review

Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. Startup accelerators support early-stage, growth-driven companies through education, mentorship, and financing. based accelerators in existence during the 2005–2015 period. Quality matters. Insight Center. Sponsored by Northern Trust. Set your company up for success.

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Five Years After Lehman’s Collapse, Bankers Still Haven’t Confronted Their Biases

Harvard Business Review

In 2005, four dozen senior executives at Lehman Brothers took a decision-making course. Even the supposedly long-term compensation structure of banks – the annual bonus – leads salespeople and brokers to ignore future harm and focus too much on immediate consequences. Finance Recession'