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The Silent Killer of New Products: Lazy Pricing

Harvard Business Review

This new (and alarming) data comes from pricing consulting giant Simon-Kucher & Partners, which conducts its survey every other year with the Professional Pricing Society, a professional association. The 2014 survey polled approximately 1,600 executives and managers from over 40 countries and across a range of industries.

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How to Hand Off an Innovation Project from One Team to Another

Harvard Business Review

In many companies, innovation teams tend to fall into three buckets: Explorers, Scalers, and Optimizers (with credit to Bud Caddell and Simon Wardley ). Optimizers make up the core of most established businesses — they’re skilled at enhancing and perfecting the existing business to drive growth or improve operations.

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The Data Says Climate Change Could Cost Investors Trillions

Harvard Business Review

In a bit of understatement, Simon Dietz of the London School of Economics, the lead author of the report, told The Guardian , “long-term investors…would be better off in a low-carbon world.” Will that asset be operational or retain its value over the normal depreciation period?

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