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Don’t Overlook the Small Brands You Already Own

Harvard Business Review

In our most recent Breakthrough Innovation Report , Taddy Hall and I cite that 49 percent of the growth in U.S. So in an entrepreneurial fashion and with minimal budget, Steve and Carl created Ball Park Angus hot dogs after a casual “what if” conversation with Mike Clabby, the lead food scientist.

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Make the Internet of Things More Human-Friendly

Harvard Business Review

Similarly, Google just enlisted Diane von Furstenberg to design fashionable Glass frames, while the Cupertino-designed Apple Watch will eventually be angling to compete with stylish wrist-worn fashions from Geneva. As we go about our business in the physical world, the distance between mind, body, and things fades away.

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An Inside View of How LVMH Makes Luxury More Sustainable

Harvard Business Review

The company is a €36 billion decentralized collection of valuable brands — which they call houses (or maisons ) — covering fashion, wine and spirits, cosmetics, and jewelry. The most innovative part of LVMH’s carbon strategy is the use of an internal carbon fund. Supply Chain Partnerships.

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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market

Harvard Business Review

Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent. For people in other professions, it may be Quora, a website that hosts questions and answers on subjects from programming languages to fashion to the outbreak of the Zika virus. Don’t keep relying on the same old social media platforms.

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Have You Earned the Right to Lead? Ten Deeply Destructive Mistakes That Suggest the Answer Is No (and How to Stop Making Them)

Strategy Driven

It’s about having the guts to seek feedback from others in a sincere and genuine fashion. Because innovation requires it. But if your employees take a risk and fail, and you come down on them like a hammer, guess what? Authenticity is about owning your failures and shortcomings. MISTAKE #5: Punishing ‘good failures.’

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

Shiller hammered away on this point in the ‘80s, and in fact Fama also published some of the same observations. Lars’s guys are irrational in a level-headed way, and Bob Shiller’s guys are irrational in a way that is subject to these social fads and fashions. They tend to be followed by declining prices.

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