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Social Class In The C-Suite

The Horizons Tracker

By contrast, the IT and engineering sectors were far more accessible to people from working-class backgrounds. These CEOs had transitioned through the classes as a result of their educational performance and were highly present in sectors like technology, engineering, health, and education.

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How To Discover Your Organization’s Next Big Growth Opportunities

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest piece by Innovation Excellence co-founder Rowan Gibson. What most companies understand now is that the only way to drive profitable growth and wealth creation over the longer term is to innovate. But that’s not the way radical innovators envisage their organizations. This is quite understandable.

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Bringing Science To Summer

The Horizons Tracker

Countries around the world have made a concerted effort to try and encourage more young people to take an interest in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), with an understandable belief that these topics are vital for the competitive edge of a modern economy.

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Veterans Among the Best Civilian Leaders

Strategy Driven

Always at the forefront of innovation, technologies pioneered by the military are often adopted by the commercial sector; companies looking for cyber knowledge or network engineering skills can find this expertise among veterans.

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Innovation Is as Much About Finding Partners as Building Products

Harvard Business Review

The innovation alone is a herculean task, but imagine being that upstart pioneer trying to develop the technology, while at the same time going up against entrenched, powerful competitors with deep industry knowledge, assets, and channels who’ve been around for a hundred years or more. This is an incredible moment for innovation.

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Many CEOs Aren’t Breakthrough Innovators (and That’s OK)

Harvard Business Review

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D. Overall, it is a messy picture.

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Technology Progresses When Business, Government, and Academia Work Together

Harvard Business Review

Although US firms had pioneered and dominated the technology for two decades, they were now getting pummeled by cheaper Japanese imports. At the same time, the marketplace has become so fiercely competitive—and investors so demanding—that few are willing to take a flyer on an unproven technology.