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Radical Recovery Tools

Strategy Driven

Each issue is packed with thought-provoking content and insight into the business issues that affect all companies competing in today’s technology-driven marketplace with recent contributions by best-selling author and researcher Tom Davenport; social media guru Chris Brogan; and Myron Scholes, world renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner.

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The Comparing Trap

Harvard Business Review

He and two other economists created the trading process called Black-Scholes that impacted the ways financial markets were informed and influenced. And if we manage to hit this difficult target, we simply create an even more difficult one at which we can aim. Robert Merton was 46 when he won the award. You see the problem.

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

They might be surprised at how certain economic notions have been directly applied in business, with largely positive results. Only the one I assert in my book Trillion Dollar Economists , that business managers may want to pay a bit more attention to the scribbling of academic economists. Here a few notable examples.