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Is Entrepreneurship As Popular As We Think?

The Horizons Tracker

Entrepreneurship has seldom been sexier, with the press overwhelmed with stories of technological disruption and the tremendous changes emerging across society as a result of the bold and courageous innovators that are bucking the norm. This is a problem across the developed world, and is far from confined to the United States.

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Consider first the increasing use of auctions, which have a distinguished history in the development of economics. Walker’s innovation was to bind travelers to pay the prices they bid if the airlines and hoteliers on Priceline accepted the offers. Here a few notable examples. Economists and big data. Strategy'

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GDP Is a Wildly Flawed Measure for the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

Gross Domestic Product (GDP), our core measure of prosperity, was developed during the industrial age. physical capital), rather than today’s growth drivers of developing and creating human, intellectual, and network capital.

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