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The Role Prediction Markets Play In Assessing Climate Risk

The Horizons Tracker

Prediction markets are often highly effective means of bringing together diverse perspectives, and have been shown to outperform individuals and teams in a wide range of tasks. Prediction markets are designed so that incentives are given to those with vital bits of information to disclose that information. ” Risk assessment. .

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Insurance Executive Search: Navigating the Landscape of Risk and Reward

N2Growth Blog

They are no longer responsible for managing risk but also for driving innovation, enhancing customer experiences, and achieving sustainable growth. Moreover, companies should have effective onboarding and development programs to support executives in their transition and ensure long-term success.

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Decision Markets Outperform Committees (But Trust In Them Is Low)

The Horizons Tracker

Decision markets are increasingly common to help weed out the best decisions, but they are still dwarfed by decisions made via committees or other adhoc groups. However, the researchers find that people can learn to trust information markets the more often they use them, thus offering a ray of light. ” Trusting the crowd.

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William Miller on Business Model Innovation

Rajesh Setty

I have known Dr. William Miller (co-founder of Value Centered Innovation ) for a number of years and every conversation with him on business model innovation and beyond has been delightful and insightful. RS: What are the larger considerations to defining and innovating a business model?

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Big Pharma's Hidden Business Model and How Your Company Funds It

Harvard Business Review

The study assembles considerable evidence about the hidden business model of major pharmaceutical companies: to devote most of their research budget to developing hundreds of drugs that provide few if any advantages over existing drugs and then market them heavily to doctors and patients.

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The Case for Corporate Disobedience

Harvard Business Review

If your company puts you in charge of developing a foreign market or a new line of business, your challenges are in many ways similar to those facing a startup. But as Steve Blank, Henry Chesbrough, and others have pointed out , that advantage is offset by the daunting fact that corporate innovators have to fight a war on two fronts.

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How Risk Reduction Is (and Isn't) Rocket Science

Harvard Business Review

Maintain a constant focus on talent development for their teams and, in particular, their project leaders. One innovative portfolio-management technique the mission employed was a novel free-market resource-allocation concept drawn from the field of economics. Continuing Talent Development. Leveraging Executive Sponsors.

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