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Embrace the Complexity of Cyber Defense

Harvard Business Review

One design strategy that helps biological systems achieve robustness to these threats is diversity — genetic diversity in a species, species diversity in an ecosystem, and molecular diversity in an immune system. Why Your CEO Is a Security Risk. Information & technology Managing uncertainty Risk management'

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Studying India's Maha Kumbh Mela Festival

Harvard Business Review

To those interested in how cooperation among diverse groups happens, this is a fortuitous setting. Other, more informal norms among disparate groups of people seem to emerge quickly. This is also the first Big Data Kumbh, as I call it.

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What Boards Can Do About Brain Drain

Harvard Business Review

In fact, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) estimates that almost a quarter (24.2%) of all New Zealanders with university-level educations have emigrated. We also asked the directors to assess their companies’ performance on talent management by evaluating the following nine practices: attracting top talent.