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Wise Leadership

Harvard Business Review

Hirotaka Takeuchi , Harvard Business School professor, and Ikujiro Nonaka , professor emeritus at Hitotsubashi University, explain how the best executives strive for the common good. They are the authors of the HBR article The Wise Leader.

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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business Review

In 1986, one of us (Takeuchi) and coauthor Ikujiro Nonaka published an article in Harvard Business Review called “The New New Product Development Game.” One came from a Bell Labs article on the Borland Quattro Pro team , suggesting that short daily team meetings increased group productivity dramatically.