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Three Year-End Innovation Takeaways from Asia

Harvard Business Review

Silicon Valley remains the global hot spot of innovation, and America continues to churn out innovative companies like Groupon and Bloom Energy. But Eastern companies and entrepreneurs are gaining traction. Chinese companies like BYD are well positioned to lead the electrical vehicle market.

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Stop Talking About Social and Do It

Harvard Business Review

Human Resources" have changed when most of the people who create value for your organization are neither hired nor paid by you. This can change how we organize every single part of these organizations — from what we make, to how we product and distribute, to how we market and sell. Everything. Disrupting How We Work.

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The Most Efficient Die Early

Harvard Business Review

Before companies could fully recover, massive flooding in Thailand caused further disruptions in Asian supply chains. Total losses from those two disasters were very likely greater than the savings companies had won, over the preceding years, by squeezing out costs and making their supply chains so efficient.