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Why Germany Dominates the U.S. in Innovation

Harvard Business Review

has the world’s most sophisticated system of financing radical ideas, and the results have been impressive, from Google to Facebook to Twitter. An American PhD student in computer science never even thinks about a career in the automobile industry — or, for that matter, other manufacturing-related fields.

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Is HR Too Important to Be Left to HR?

Harvard Business Review

Moreover, almost everybody in a company has certain opinions about how to do HR. Thats different in IT, accounting, or finance. If you want to conduct an employee survey, ask business stakeholders about its relevance and how to do it. Moreover, almost everybody in a company has certain opinions about how to do HR.

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Are You Working Over the Thanksgiving Holiday?

Harvard Business Review

Is this a time to mount a campaign for Plan B, that other job or career youve been putting off looking into? Is this a time to mount a campaign for Plan B, that other job or career youve been putting off looking into? The Conversation Blogs The Conversation Are You Working Over the Thanksgiving Holiday?

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The Next Frontier of Judgment - Across Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

Comments The Next Frontier of Judgment - Across Enterprises (Larry Prusak, Brook Manville, and Tom Davenport are at work on a book on judgment and how to cultivate it as an organizational, not just individual, strength. His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work.

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Breaking Up the Retail-Price Confusopoly

Harvard Business Review

In my own work , I found that this might be particularly prevalent for utilities (gas, electricity and telecommunications). His work has shown how firms can use "frames" (the way in which prices are presented) to soften competition. Ran Spiegler (with co-authors) has studied such strategies.

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Ask them if they apply much else from else from economics in their actual business careers, and you’re likely to hear “not much.”. They might be surprised at how certain economic notions have been directly applied in business, with largely positive results. Economists and finance. Here a few notable examples.

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The Right CEO Personality for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

But they have very little interest in how to get the ideas put into operation. Typically, these executives focus on the "what" and the "what if" and not the "how," which of course is the realm of process people. But they have very little interest in how to get the ideas put into operation.

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