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London Succeeds in Its Olympic Trials

Harvard Business Review

London was announced as host city on July 6, 2005 to wild celebrations. No sooner had Beijing's flame died than the global financial crisis took British debt levels above 60% of GDP, excluding public intervention in failing banks. In doing so, they reinforced the importance of innovation to the Games culture.

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Walker’s innovation was to bind travelers to pay the prices they bid if the airlines and hoteliers on Priceline accepted the offers. For several decades after World War II, economists used statistical techniques to build increasingly complex models to forecast key macroeconomic variables, notably, GDP growth, inflation and unemployment.