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2013 Trends and The Power of Women

Women on Business

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. This offered both a great opportunity for innovation and a serious challenge ?

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Six Predictions for Digital Business in 2012

Harvard Business Review

A web-native bank will appear and inspire fanatical devotion among its customers. Anyone think those are the last of the amazing digital innovations? Berkeley has just explained why it chose Google for its campus-wide email and calendaring apps, so some pretty large organizations are starting to move into the Cloud. Me neither.

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The Promise of a Truly Entrepreneurial Society

Harvard Business Review

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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Why Leaders Need to Think More Like Professional Gamblers

Leading Blog

Many years later, French mathematician Pierre-Simon Laplace developed Bayes’s idea into a powerful theory, which we now know as the Bayes Theorem. Our instinct for determinism may well have been an evolutionary innovation. Here is a simple explanation of it. That inspired Benham to leave his day job and focus on gambling.

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

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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How Senior Executives Find Time to Be Creative

Harvard Business Review

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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Extreme Focus and the Success of Germany's Mittelstand

Harvard Business Review

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?