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On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

Harvard Business Review

For example, most in the art world agreed that sculptor Janet Echelman's "Water Sky Garden," created for the speed-skating site at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, was decidedly different. Hitler's human extermination empire was quite new in its scope, organization, and technology. Consider " The Balanced Scorecard."

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The Buzz on Green Business in China

Harvard Business Review

The theme of the big event was "Technology-led Transition and Innovation-driven Development," which sounds broad. The Ministry of Commerce was showing how some companies "have made use of technology to.promote a low-carbon economy and environmental protection." Follow him on Twitter at @GreenAdvantage. And on and on. In the U.S.

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Artisans Must Balance the Books

Harvard Business Review

The Conversation Blogs The Conversation Artisans Must Balance the Books 8:12 AM Tuesday November 23, 2010 by Ndubuisi Ekekwe | Comments () Email Tweet This Post to Facebook Share on LinkedIn Print The boy was 11 years old when his father took him to live with a kinsman, a businessman with many shops in Lagos, Nigeria.

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Making Hospital Partnerships Work

Harvard Business Review

The assumption is that a merger will make it easier to achieve economies of scale, develop a large but narrow network of preferably healthy patients, establish data registries, and integrate expensive technology. After much deliberation, we partnered with University of Chicago Medicine (UCM) in 2010.

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The Next Frontier of Judgment - Across Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work. Over the next few months, well each be authoring posts in this blog to test-drive ideas and invite input as the research progresses.) All rights reserved. Harvard Business Publishing is an affiliate of Harvard Business School.