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The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011

Harvard Business Review

Advertising will take a backseat to promotional offers as retailers and brand managers alike collectively decide that branding a promotion matters just as much as promoting a brand. There will be a Farmville counterpart or equivalent that becomes a welcome teaching and/or business simulation and learning tool in the enterprise.

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Why Leadership Development Isn’t Developing Leaders

Harvard Business Review

How talent management is changing. Business simulations or unstructured large group dialogues are examples of this. Given the uncertainty in their industry, it was impossible for senior management to know what their long-term business strategy or organizational model would look like. Insight Center.