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Strategy and The Uncertainty Excuse

Harvard Business Review

This is an argument I hear particularly often in high-technology sectors. They may be strategizing their way to first mover advantages and positions that leave few if any attractive options in the market. Their narrative tends to be that when it happened, it was just too late to do anything constructive about it.

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Best Practices for Leading via Innovation

Harvard Business Review

In an era of intense globalization, rapid demographic change and accelerating technological progress, the best companies for leadership recognize the value of innovation, putting it at the heart of their corporate culture and using this targeted, focused innovation to drive shareholder value and improve efficiency. Broaden perspectives.

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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business Review

This is promising for a market formerly dubbed the “breadbasket of Africa.” ” Once one of Africa’s most developed markets – with a solid education system, good infrastructure, and a relatively large middle class – decades of mismanagement have cost Zimbabwe. . billion a decade later.