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Just because you can make an omelet, doesn’t mean you’re a restaurateur!

Mills Scofield

Quick, tell me your organization’s business model. Can you tell me what a business model is? It’s a lot more than just making money – making money is the output, not even the outcome, let alone the model. Your organization, whether for-profit or not-for-profit, has a business model.

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The Coming of the Clairvoyant Computer

Leading Blog

have business models that hinge on predictive models based on machine learning. Professor Vasant Dhar, Stern School of Business, NYU. Obama was re-elected in 2012 with the help of voter prediction. The leading career-focused social network, LinkedIn, predicts your job skills. Applied Prediction.

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It Pays to Become a B Corporation

Harvard Business Review

In 2012, Cabot became a certified B Corp. B Corp certification encouraged more “whole-systems thinking” around our social and environmental practices, which led Cabot to develop even more robust customer and consumer programs, cut operating costs, and strengthen our brand reputation as a sustainability-minded company.

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2013 Trends and The Power of Women

Women on Business

Could I see the future as a projection of the strides I’ve been able to make, similar to what other women in business have done? I had to step back and think about the themes in my own career and what I’ve been hearing this year from women all over the country. million women-owned businesses in the U.S., million in 2011.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. The results were amazing. Nothing about free fall is easy.

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Changing Capitalism, One Organization at a Time

Harvard Business Review

Greg Koch tells the story of how plant managers around the world have absorbed their connection to the communities in which they do business, and work hard to earn the "social license" to operate. million-strong army of advocates for this principled approach to business in its "consultoras" (direct sales agents).