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Innovation Should Be a Top Priority for Boards. So Why Isn’t It?

Harvard Business Review

Fewer than one-third (30%) of respondents to our survey see innovation as one of the top three challenges their company faces in achieving its strategic objectives, and just 21% think that technology trends are a major strategic challenge. Most responses (80%) were received between October and December 2015.

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Understanding The Power Of Our Words

Tanveer Naseer

I imagine for some of you, your answer would be the personal computer and all the technological marvels that now make up our digital world. The talk in question is one given by Mohammed Qahtani, a security engineer from Saudi Arabia, which won him the 2015 Toastmasters International World Championship of Public Speaking.

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7 Charts Show How Political Affiliation Shapes U.S. Boards

Harvard Business Review

Meanwhile, Democrats place greater importance on technology expertise and risk management. For this analysis, we focused on responses from about 1,000 board members of companies headquartered in the United States that were submitted between October 2015 and December 2015.

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Why Mexico’s Economy Doesn’t Depend on the Next U.S. President

Harvard Business Review

In the last decade, the country has reached its highest levels of sophisticated goods from milk, growth that in 2015 helped boost the country’s per capita GDP to its highest level ever. New Zealand is the world’s largest exporter of dairy products. Source ideas through foreign direct investment.

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