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Are CEOs Really Necessary Anymore?

Strategy Driven

If BDAI had been in place at Olympus Camera on the day that Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone, would the company’s management information system have warned leadership that the pocket camera industry, at that moment, was entering an irreversible swoon? CEO’s Role- Wisdom and Innovation. Same for Elon Musk.

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Artisans Must Balance the Books

Harvard Business Review

He started very well, but as soon as his cash flow improved, financial burdens from family systems stifled his operations. But as soon as they began, the communal power of African extended family system weighed on them. People need at least a rudimentary understanding of finance to become good entrepreneurs or artisans.

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The Irish Banking Crisis: A Parable

Harvard Business Review

Heres how Antoin Murphy , one of the few scholars to have studied these strikes, which took place in the 1970s, describes it: "a highly personalized credit system without any definite time horizon for the eventual clearance of debits and credits substituted for the existing institutionalized banking system."

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The Next Frontier of Judgment - Across Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

It described the newspapers own request under the Freedom of Information Act for the New York Department of Educations performance ratings of the roughly 12,000 public city school teachers in its system.

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Why the TSA Screening Revolt is Like Poison Ivy

Harvard Business Review

Just as poison ivy does not directly cause irritation, but spoofs our immune system into thinking our own skin is the enemy, careless reporting can cause more harm than good. The tragedy here is that, as with poison ivy and the immune system, there really is no one to blame.

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Google Changes the Playing Field on News

Harvard Business Review

Second, the new system depends on publishers playing ball using the metatags. Second, the new system depends on publishers playing ball using the metatags. Googles proposed metatags may not provide visibility in quite the way a publisher wants, as they assume a single originating source, not a formal syndication process.