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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. Two years earlier, in the mid-nineties, an MIT professor had joined the Harvard Business School faculty and one year later won the Nobel Prize in economics. 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. Ask them if they apply much else from else from economics in their actual business careers, and you’re likely to hear “not much.”. Here a few notable examples.