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The Comparing Trap

Harvard Business Review

In an adjacent office was a colleague who had written something like 12 books and was an internationally recognized scholar in the area of organizational innovation. Compared with my colleague, I had accomplished so little over such a long career; my two measly books were more like an embarrassment, given his output.

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Ask them if they apply much else from else from economics in their actual business careers, and you’re likely to hear “not much.”. Walker’s innovation was to bind travelers to pay the prices they bid if the airlines and hoteliers on Priceline accepted the offers. Here a few notable examples.