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On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

Harvard Business Review

For example, most in the art world agreed that sculptor Janet Echelman's "Water Sky Garden," created for the speed-skating site at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, was decidedly different. Hitler's human extermination empire was quite new in its scope, organization, and technology. And it quite effectively served its murderous goal.

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Blockbuster Becomes a Casualty of Big Bang Disruption

Harvard Business Review

The shutdown will be completed by early 2014, bringing to a close a dramatic story of rise and fall at the hands of disruptive technological innovation, or what we have called “ big bang disruption.” homes have broadband , and network operators continue to invest in ever-faster cable, satellite, and fiber-based technologies.