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Surefire Predictions and Why Doomsayers are Wrong

Harvard Business Review

Innovative forms of financing, such as Kickstarter, will continue to grow, also invented by social entrepreneurs. Visual and performing arts will be resurgent, especially on the local level, and they will compete effectively with broadcast media and digital media. Already the idea of encore careers is taking hold.

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Surefire Predictions and Why Doomsayers are Wrong

Harvard Business Review

Innovative forms of financing, such as Kickstarter, will continue to grow, also invented by social entrepreneurs. Visual and performing arts will be resurgent, especially on the local level, and they will compete effectively with broadcast media and digital media. Already the idea of encore careers is taking hold.

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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business Review

” That clean-sheet perspective emboldened Intel’s leadership to abandon memory and focus on microprocessors. They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

In hindsight, this thinking turned out to be far less important than what we learned about leadership, control, and trust, which ultimately were reflected in how each of the businesses was created, capitalized, and staffed. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai.

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

Harvard Business Review

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. For example, Terry Semel, who succeeded Tim Koogle as CEO of Yahoo in 2001, had a media marketing background at Warner Brothers.

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