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The Best Leadership Books of 2019

Leading Blog

All day long, the power of bad governs people’s moods, drives marketing campaigns, and dominates news and politics. In fact, bad breaks and bad feelings create the most powerful incentives to become smarter and stronger. The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek (Portfolo, 2019) Do you know how to play the game you’re in? Blog Post ).

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The More Climate Skeptics There Are, the Fewer Climate Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

But how does the presence of climate skeptics affect the market for climate-related innovation? They ensure that would-be climate entrepreneurs have less incentive to invent. The small market size would lead the company to not invest in baldness medication. So they have no incentive to purchase them.

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When Companies Want to Innovate, But Investors Won’t Let Them

Harvard Business Review

Simon McGill/Getty Images. Businesses understand the power of digital innovations to reshape industries and markets. In theory, investor incentives align with what is good for the firm. In our research , we first examined the drivers of firms’ investments in digital innovation and their subsequent market valuations.

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Beware of Innovations from Daily-Deal Sites

Harvard Business Review

Even when sweetened with incentives for repeat purchasers, jazzed up with time- or item-specific discounts, or offered through location-aware mobile devices, all daily deals are simply price promotions. Simons Distinguished Associate Professor of Management at Rice University in Houston. And often steep ones at that. Mackey, Jr.

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Fixing the Game: What Capitalism Can Learn from the NFL

Leading Blog

In 1976, Harvard finance professor Michael Jensen and Dean William Meekling of the Simon School of Business at the University of Rochester published a paper entitled Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure [ PDF ]. In the NFL there is the real market when teams take to the field to play a game.

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Everything You Didn’t Know You Wanted to Know About the Pallet Industry

Harvard Business Review

Digital markets produce much lower profit per item,” Pakman lectures us. They have little incentive to build a more equitable community.” Publishers must therefore rebuild their cost structure by doing such things as “moving to a less fancy office and lowering [managers’] salaries.” Instead, they merely reproduce their own kind.

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Staying Human in the Robot Age

Harvard Business Review

“A wealth of information creates poverty of attention,” said Herbert Simon, long before today’s computer-fueled data tsunami. More and more of human lives are marketized and commodified on technology platforms. Is that likely under today’s incentives? Attentional poverty. ” Commodification.

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