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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. So BDAI is pretty useful for management to be able to see where we are and where we might be headed. CEO’s Role- Wisdom and Innovation.

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Is the Next Karl Marx a Management Consultant?

Harvard Business Review

They're in well-appointed offices at business schools and management consulting firms. A brief sampling: Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's " Creating Shared Value ;" Christoper Meyer and Julia Kirby's " Runaway Capitalism ;" Dominic Barton's " Capitalism for the Long Term ;" the collected works of Umair Haque.

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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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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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How Could I Miss That? Jamie Dimon on the Hot Seat

Harvard Business Review

In 2005, Dimon hired Ina Drew to head the company's Chief Investment Office, the unit responsible for the bank's risk exposure. On April 4 of this year, Dimon read a short article in the Wall Street Journal about a JPMorgan trader in London, Bruno Iksil, who was making massive bets that exposed the bank to high levels of risk.

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The Top Five Career Regrets

Harvard Business Review

The group was diverse: I spoke with a 39-year-old managing director of a large investment bank, a failing self-employed photographer, a millionaire entrepreneur, and a Fortune 500 CEO. As their personal finances shored up, professionals I surveyed yearned for more control over their lives. You can't ever get those years back.".

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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. Most attempts to combat short-termism are flawed because they focus on changing CEO behavior through some combination of pleading and incentives.