Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

As technology becomes more disruptive and we see more importance placed on big data and artificial intelligence, what will matter most are those things that make us human – the soft skills. Taylor There's no such thing as an average or old-fashioned business, just average or old-fashioned ways to do business.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 6, 2016

If you work for a small firm or a giant organization, in fashion or finance, in Texas or Tanzania, you are competing in a ruthless, globe-spanning Expectation Economy. Change – environmental, political, social, cultural, technological, economic – is occurring constantly. Drivers of Change. You can’t have trends without change!

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Many have found success in industries like technology, mining, and construction. Forbes called 2013 the " Year of the Female Founder." Those businesses were mainly in fashion, fitness and beauty. But most women outgrew the "cookies and crafts" stereotype a long time ago, and have their sights set on bigger goals.

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Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Benchmarking Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Corporations buy and employ human advice from many wise advisors—consultants, lawyers, investment bankers—in the same fashion that investors did in the past. These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013. It seems only logical that they would extend into corporate strategy and finance.

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Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

So while the App Economy booms, there are signs that its rapid expansion is a challenge for the current search, marketing, and monetization models — models that have been largely fashioned by blockbuster app titles and the big spenders behind them. First, there is something I call the “Discovery Dilemma.”

Development 8

Development Advertising Download Budgeting 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Technology has forced music artists to completely rethink the way they approach their businesses. They’re extending their brand into areas like technology, gaming, fashion, and lifestyle content — essentially becoming entertainment platforms. We’ve all had to adapt.

Business Model 8

Business Model Merchandising Restructuring Fashion 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2014

He got his PhD at Yale under Shiller’s supervision in 1984, but since then he has also done a lot of work expanding on Fama’s ideas about risk and return, some of it co-authored with Fama’s son-in-law and University of Chicago finance colleague, John Cochrane. And that’s what these guys [the 2013 Nobel winners] did.

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