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What is Your New Business Model for 2010?

Women's Leadership Exchange

a company known for its live conferences since 2002, is presenting the first Virtual Summit for Women Business Owners and Professionals, www.womensleadershipexchange.com (and men can attend, too) on Wednesday, May 26. So the theme of the virtual conference ?A s Leadership Exchange (WLE) ? Third, business owners have no time.

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Would You Invest in This Kid?

Harvard Business Review

In 2002, a 14-year-old Malawi boy named William Kamkwamba built a windmill using items he collected from a scrap yard to power the electrical appliances in his family home. His windmill made him famous, and he has since traveled all over the world speaking at leadership conferences.

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Research: We Take More Risks When We Compete Against Rivals

Harvard Business Review

Similarly, the rivalry between Intel and AMD is thought to have helped advance computer chip technology. ” We then collected nine years of play-by-play data (2002 – 2010), totaling almost half a million unique plays. technology), rivalry could be an important lever for managers to pull to incentivize risk-taking.

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Want Less-Biased Decisions? Use Algorithms.

Harvard Business Review

Below is a sample of the research about what happens when algorithms are given control of tasks traditionally carried out by humans (all emphasis mine): In 2002 a team of economists studied the impact of automated underwriting algorithms in the mortgage lending industry.

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What Really Led to Last Summer’s Most Notorious Firing

Harvard Business Review

Instead of monitoring the media for new ideas, attend trade shows and conferences and go to talks in areas that are out of your area of knowledge. There are things you can do to put yourself in luck''s way, says Martin Bliemel of the Australian School of Business. Such as search harder for sources of inspiration. Crisis management'

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

It's stunning today to read the NIEO demands—because they are almost exactly the same as what Supachai Panitchpakdi, head of UNCTAD and previously Director General of the WTO (2002-2005), is now calling for. But haven't we heard this before? Yes, with regard to what the emerging powers are asking for.

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Yes, Short-Termism Really Is a Problem

Harvard Business Review

.” Keiretsu “was widely seen as a great Japanese strength,” Summers notes, “yet even apart from Japan’s manifest macroeconomic difficulties, Japanese companies lacking market discipline have squandered leads in sectors ranging from electronics to automobiles to information technology.” years in 2002 to 7.2

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