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Which Business Sectors Are Attracting Investment?

Strategy Driven

There have also been great leaps forward in biotechnology and even people without investment experience in the industry can find a niche sector to become involved in. Technology is innovation and looks likely to form the foundation for much of our society for the foreseeable future. Technology. Financial sector.

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Innovation Should Be a Top Priority for Boards. So Why Isn’t It?

Harvard Business Review

Corporate directors and executives alike recognize that today’s pace of change continues to accelerate and that firms need to innovate to stay ahead. But are boards doing enough to support innovation, as they should? We found that, overall, innovation does not rank as a top strategic challenge for the majority of boards.

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Talent Management: Boards Give Their Companies an "F"

Harvard Business Review

Not innovation, risk management, technology, debt, or the regulatory environment. Corporate directors identified talent management as their single greatest strategic challenge. We know that organizations commit enormous resources and effort to talent management, so why aren''t they doing a better job? Not rising costs.

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50 Laboratories of Opportunity

Harvard Business Review

When I was teaching at Peking University, for example, one of my fellow professors monitored an experiment in which the Chinese government gave local villagers the rights to manage a forest. The bank has never received a taxpayer bailout. Its officers never receive bonuses.