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

The Horizons Tracker

The results revealed that groups can perform pretty well when the members have common incentives and interests, and can even outperform prediction markets. This isn’t the case when there are conflicts of interest among members however. Lack of trust.

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The Future Economy Project: Advice from Sustainability Experts

Harvard Business Review

Learn about the future economy project. Harvard Business Review interviewed the CEOs and other business leaders who signed up to the Future Economy Project, our initiative spotlighting businesses’ sustainability agendas. The result will be innovation. A roundtable conversation with our advisers. It’s a start.

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

Harvard Business Review

How do you get a five-ton spacecraft safely to Saturn and land a probe on its largest moon when your project involves three space agencies, 17 countries, 18 separate scientific payloads, and 250 scientists working across 10 time zones? Maintain a constant focus on talent development for their teams and, in particular, their project leaders.

Project 16
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How Risk Reduction Is (and Isn't) Rocket Science

Harvard Business Review

How do you get a five-ton spacecraft safely to Saturn and land a probe on its largest moon when your project involves three space agencies, 17 countries, 18 separate scientific payloads, and 250 scientists working across 10 time zones? Maintain a constant focus on talent development for their teams and, in particular, their project leaders.

Project 13
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Integrating Maintenance of Board Certification and Health Systems’ Quality-Improvement Programs

Harvard Business Review

Most physicians complete quality-improvement projects individually by completing modules provided by the specialty certification boards to collect, analyze, and improve quality on subsets of 25 to 50 patients. The ongoing program has allowed Mayo to do the following: Review and approve (or reject) quality-improvement projects (QIPs).

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The Steep Psychological Price of Starting Your Own Company

Harvard Business Review

This quote is only one of the candid and deeply felt points relayed by the entrepreneurs interviewed for this piece on the anxiety, depression, and stress that often go hand-in-hand with building a start-up (95% of which don''t meet their projections). Vulnerability, says former entrepreneur and psychiatrist Michael A. —Andrea Ovans.

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