Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2014

Every few hundred years throughout Western history, a sharp transformation has occurred,” Peter Drucker observed in a 1992 e ssay for Harvard Business Review. “In survey found, for example, that fewer than 20% of IT professionals say they are effective at targeting where they can add the most value inside their organizations. “An

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Drucker Survey Learning-by-Doing Knowledge Management 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

Half of the 14 billionaires on Forbes magazine's 2010 list of the world's richest self-made women are from mainland China. Sixty-five percent of the more than 1,000 college-educated women surveyed consider themselves very ambitious, compared to 36 percent of their U.S. But the similarities end there.

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Survey Policies Globalization CFO 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The answer is the sharp and unexpected rise of existential risk. Every half century or so, the risk assumptions underlying our economic, social and political foundations change dramatically. For a number of reasons, the size, complexity scale and symmetry of risk are vastly different in 2011 than 1991.

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Uncertainty Supply Chain Scenario Planning Sharpe 14

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 29, 2014

Looking at two national health surveys, we found that obesity has decreased among teenagers who come from wealthy, well-educated families, but it has continued to increase among poor teens. Between 2003 and 2010, obesity rates among teens whose parents have no more than a high-school education rose from about 20% to 25%.

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Sports Trends Education Sharpe 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

have dropped by billions — down 11% in 2010 alone, according to a recent report from the Chronicle of Philanthropy. For more tightly focused not-for-profits , such as the Cleveland Clinic and the network of Food Banks around the country, the decline is not nearly as sharp. There is a crisis in the not-for-profit sector.

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Crisis Mayo Strategy Short-term 13

Building Personal Strength

JULY 12, 2010

As I surveyed the scene for more wounded, the patrol leader reported that one person was missing. The truth of the matter is that the random pattern of shrapnel that day caused the hot, sharp metal fragments to pass me by. Copyright 2010. I immediately put in a radio call for a “dust-off”—a medical evacuation helicopter.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A little-recognized NSF report released in September 2010, the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) , said that only 9% of public and private companies engaged in either product or service innovation between 2006 and 2008. There was little in the way of new industries, companies, jobs, profits, or taxes.

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