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The Time to Think About the 3D-Printed Future Is Now

Harvard Business Review

Often dismissed in the popular mindset as a tool for home-based “makers” of toys and trinkets, the technology is gaining momentum in large-scale industry. Impressive next-generation technologies are overcoming the last generation’s drawbacks while adding new capabilities. Now we’re seeing much bigger stakes.

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Can Index Funds Be a Force for Sustainable Capitalism?

Harvard Business Review

It is tough to beat the market and over long periods of time indexing has been shown to outperform most active managers. On the other side, fans of active management see it as a trend that can damage market efficiency and lead to distortions in market prices. But what’s the role of investors?

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There’s No Good Alternative to Investing in R&D

Harvard Business Review

Sarah Williamson is the CEO of FCLTGlobal (formerly Focusing Capital on the Long Term), an organization cofounded in 2016 by BlackRock, CPPIB, Dow Chemical, McKinsey, and Tata Sons to encourage a longer-term focus in business and investment decision making. This is precisely what Xerox did when it created Xerox Technology Ventures.

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What Neuroscience Reveals About Creating Better Leaders In Today’s Organizations

Tanveer Naseer

To do that it has made use of imaging technologies such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and positron emission tomography (PET), along with brain wave analysis technologies such as quantitative electroencephalography (QEEG). This makes empathy a handy data-gathering tool that’s employed in the decision-making process.

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What the Big Mergers of 2017 Tell Us About 2018

Harvard Business Review

Deep changes in technology and globalization that started in the 1990s continue to up-end how we live and work. And Walmart’s 2016 acquisition of Jet.com seems to be yielding fruit – meaning we will be buying more and more online. But what happened this year in chemicals is real, not speculation.

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Research Highlights The Innovative Potential Of Immigrants

The Horizons Tracker

However, until recently, a precise gauge of the immigrants’ contribution to the country’s economic and technological progress has remained elusive. To shed light on the matter, the researchers analyzed the output of almost 880,000 Americans who patented inventions between 1990 and 2016.

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10 Sustainable Business Stories Too Important to Miss

Harvard Business Review

The clean tech markets keep growing fast: three of the world’s biggest economies — the U.S., In addition, electric and hybrid cars are about 4% of US auto sales now, a doubling of market share in the last couple of years. And Lego just announced its intention to use 100% renewable energy by 2016. So what’s really new this year?