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To Inspire Innovation, Get a Muse

Harvard Business Review

Does your business — should your innovators — have a muse? Aesthete-centric brands like Burberry's, Zegna and Chanel have as their ambassadors aspiring icons who give creative light and focus to the design portfolio. Anyone can hire a focus group. Perhaps the newly-knighted Sir Jonathan Ive has one, too.

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HR Must Make People Analytics More User-Friendly

Harvard Business Review

For example, beyond providing numbers that describe trends in the demographic makeup of a job, improved logic might describe how demographic diversity affects innovation, or it might depict the pipeline of talent movement to show what bottlenecks most affect career progress.

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Women in Asia Are More Financially Savvy than Women in the U.S.

Harvard Business Review

Our new book, Harness the Power of the Purse: Winning Women Investors , based on recent research from the Center for Talent Innovation, indicates that there is a rising tide of female wealth worldwide. In India, 59% of women in our sample report they’re generating their wealth; only 20% derive it from their spouse and 21% inherit it.

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The Health Care Industry Needs to Start Taking Women Seriously

Harvard Business Review

Instead, according to new research from the Center for Talent Innovation (CTI), the fundamental issue is the health care industry’s failure to develop a nuanced understanding of, and commitment to, women as consumers and decision makers. Surprisingly, it’s not the cost of care.