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Small Business Resolutions for 2011

Coaching Tip

by Alexander Hiam, author of Business Innovations for Dummies. The key to improved results is innovative actions that, while they stick within the limits of your budget, also take you in exciting new directions. Here are some resolutions to help small or mid-sized businesses innovate in 2011. . Become a seasoned innovator. .

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StrategyDriven Editorial Perspective – Good Intentions, Bad Results: Learning from the Panic of 1826

Strategy Driven

Both were defined by financial innovations that seemed to defy the natural law of risk and reward, by promising a high yield and low risk. FREE COPY of a StrategyDriven Expert Contributor book †. Books typically valued from $14.95 – $29.95 Book value is not guaranteed. But was it a new financial world?

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HBR's Most Popular Blog Posts of 2011

Harvard Business Review

Five Things You Should Stop Doing in 2012. Steve Jobs Solved the Innovator's Dilemma. How Jobs figured out the puzzle at the core of his favorite business book. The concept of reverse innovation applies in finance, as well. How the science of attention blindness can help you improve your innovative thinking.

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Research: Could Machine Learning Help Companies Select Better Board Directors?

Harvard Business Review

Advances in machine learning have led to innovations ranging from facial recognition software to self-driving cars. We found that firms tend to choose directors who are much more likely to be male, have a large network, have a lot of board experience, currently serve on more boards, and have a finance background. Could technology help?

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Are CEOs Overhyped and Overpaid?

Harvard Business Review

For example, Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk enjoy cult-like status and are widely regarded as modern tycoons of innovation. Second, as a 20-year review from 1993 to 2012 showed, CEOs’ judgment affects key strategic and managerial processes , such as staffing, financing, and marketing decisions.

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What Big Companies Can Learn from the Success of the Unicorns

Harvard Business Review

billion, which has experienced incredible growth, with the total number of users having practically doubled each year since 2012. HelloFresh has also had impressive growth rates, with revenues reaching about $300 million in 2015, a huge increase from its $3 million in 2012. Financed by VC firms.

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Crowdfunding’s Big-Bang Moment

Harvard Business Review

But those impressive numbers may be eclipsed by a revolution in venture financing that is only being held back by final government approval: start-ups raising actual investment funds from individuals in exchange for equity or a share of profits. How big a deal is this “democratization” of finance? Last week, the U.S.