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The Growing Power of Women in Business

Women on Business

In 2012, 18 of the Fortune 500 companies will have women CEOs at the helm. In the past, business was about cooperation, and we cooperated because we had to. Men are great at cooperating. This brings us to the other side of the equation. Increasingly, it’s women. Everyone has heard of “silos” in companies.

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For Entrepreneurs, Three Ways to Control Your Destiny and Rekindle Joy

Harvard Business Review

Entrepreneurs and innovators are supposed to be happily self-directed. Artisans' cooperatives help market products from diverse artists. Agricultural cooperatives such as Land of Lakes and Ocean Spray offer big brand names and wide distribution to their farmer-members. Following Hurricane Sandy in the U.S.

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What Is Business For? Cast Your Vote!

Harvard Business Review

That was the question we put to a global community of hackers and innovators in the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge. In just two-and-a-half months, we received some 148 entries from leaders, thinkers, and innovators of all stripes, from every corner of the globe. Management Innovation According to Nature's Genius.

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Four Innovation Trends to Watch in 2013

Harvard Business Review

Digital media continue to be springboards for global innovation and enterprise. So here are four innovation ideas — themes, really — sure to gain significantly greater mind- and market-share over the coming year. Multitasking has evolved from a distraction and diversion to a financial focus wherever digital content lives.

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What Boards Can Do About Brain Drain

Harvard Business Review

In fact, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) estimates that almost a quarter (24.2%) of all New Zealanders with university-level educations have emigrated. leveraging diversity in company’s workforce. Among OECD nations, only Ireland has suffered as much brain drain. Global Disconnect. hiring top talent.

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Innovating Your Way Out Of The Resource Curse

The Horizons Tracker

Nugent, and Hoda Selim, explores the topic through the particular lens of the six Arab nations that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council. Qatar have attempted to overcome this via the creation of the Qatar Foundation in 1995, which aimed to unlock the human potential of the nation via education, innovation and entrepreneurship.

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Changing Capitalism, One Organization at a Time

Harvard Business Review

We're delighted to announce the winners of the Long-Term Capitalism Challenge , the third leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation. So it's not surprising that we received a striking diversity of entries from every kind of organization and from every corner of the world.