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Does The Age Of A Board Affect Company Innovation?

The Horizons Tracker

Innovation involves trying out new things, making improvements, and seeing what works in the market. This can make it tough for company leaders to push for innovation. The study found that if that was the case, firms seem to be “more” innovative than normal. This takes time and patience. But there’s a problem.

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Insurance Executive Search: Navigating the Landscape of Risk and Reward

N2Growth Blog

Insurance executives face unique challenges and opportunities with emerging technologies, including AI, evolving regulatory environments, and global economic uncertainties. They are no longer responsible for managing risk but also for driving innovation, enhancing customer experiences, and achieving sustainable growth.

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How Companies Can Better Work With Startups

The Horizons Tracker

Innovation has scarcely been as popular and trendy as it is today, but as Wired’s David Rowan pithily points out in his latest book, a lot of what passes for innovation is b t smothered in multiple layers of jargon and obfuscation that creates the impression that much is being done, but it’s largely a superficial veneer.

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How Corporates Can Best Engage With Startups

The Horizons Tracker

Working with startups is something many organizations strive to do in order to tap into the innovation and ingenuity such partnerships can bring. Not only do sponsors often regard the incubator as proof of their innovation prowess, but startups often regard acceptance into the incubator as job done. Successful partnerships.

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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.

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Connect Inventors with the Right Problems

Harvard Business Review

Priceline’s unique “conditional purchase offer” – which allowed bidders to make low-ball offers which they were bound to honor if accepted – was an innovative solution that taught a big lesson: when underused assets are more fully exploited, everyone can win.

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

Harvard Business Review

One innovative portfolio-management technique the mission employed was a novel free-market resource-allocation concept drawn from the field of economics. This approach ensured that project resources were properly allocated where they were really needed and minimized conflicts of interest and management overhead.

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