Women on Business

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Guest Post By: Andrea Simon, PhD., president of Simon Associates Management Consultants. They’re starting totally virtual companies, using the cloud for solutions and developing innovative ways to manage staff, time, family and work. Her husband left his real estate firm to run her office and manage the company.

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Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

We tend to see situations in one of two ways: either events are certain and can, therefore, be managed by planning, investment, and reliable budgets; or they are uncertain, and we cannot manage them. Our instinct for determinism may well have been an evolutionary innovation. Here is a simple explanation of it.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 25, 2016

Over the major innovation cycles, the capitalist system has been resilient enough to absorb the effects of the crashes caused by pure speculation and turn them to its advantage. Some prominent economists predict a new period of secular stagnation as the last great phase of innovation-fueled growth (as they see it) dries up.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

The late Julian Simon (better known, perhaps, for his optimistic views about population growth and resource abundance) thought up the idea for having airlines auction off overbooked seats and persuaded the Civil Aeronautics Board, which used to regulate airlines fares and entry, to permit the idea in the 1970s. But that would be a mistake.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

After all, every company wants to be at the forefront of its industry and on the cutting edge of innovation. To find out, I spoke to some of the most innovative leaders across key industries, from technology to consulting to manufacturing. Hannah Jones, Chief Sustainability Officer and VP of the Innovation Accelerator at Nike, Inc.,

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

As a result, Southwest Airlines turns planes around much faster than competitors, ING Direct can avoid having hundreds of physical bank locations and Shouldice can schedule surgeries in a well-oiled production process with no downtimes or waiting. Does public ownership bring pressures to continually grow by going into new areas?

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