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The Down Side Of Being Labelled An Entrepreneur

The Horizons Tracker

Instead, they answered by saying what field they worked in, such as ‘I’m in biotech,’ or by referring to a former professional title, offering, ‘I’m a recovering CPA’ or downplaying what they do, ‘I work in a factory,’ when they own the factory.” “They avoided it to keep it simple.

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When Growth is Deceiving

Harvard Business Review

To thrive in those hyper-competitive seas, a company must continually unleash value-creating innovations. My father was a CPA and amateur poker player. At the end of that stretch he felt duty bound, as a CPA, to calculate his performance. Competition Customers Innovation' With that, the steep descent into the red begins.

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The Timeless Strategic Value of Unrealistic Goals

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad's 1989 HBR article "Strategic Intent" brought about a discontinuous shift in my career — from a professor of accounting to a researcher on strategy and innovation. Why does a statement like this produce breakthrough innovation? Gary Hamel and C.K. This latter view has strongly influenced my work.

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What to Do When a “Devil’s Advocate” Tries to Derail Your Project

Harvard Business Review

” Goehner’s answer drills down to the heart of the matter: the disproportionate effect of the CPA profession’s culture on partner-track women. In fact, the whole organization gains when women become better at selling, managing, innovating, and leading. ” Focus on shared goals, not winning this argument.

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

Furthermore, the operating managers cannot take their eyes off day-to-day operations to focus on innovation. That VC arm is given relatively unconstrained financial capital to invest in innovation and disruptive ideas. Traditional companies therefore rely on two strategies.

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How I Learned the Hard Way That Aging Technology Is Expensive

Harvard Business Review

Then the family's CFO, my wife, who also happens to be a CPA, demanded to know their TCO. That's because, like many CIOs, I hate buying technology that loses a significant part of its value as soon as it's delivered. I figured these computers couldn't possibly depreciate much further. First, I added the $58 acquisition price to the $58.36

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Jim Dewald on “Entrepreneurial Thinking”: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Jim Dewald is the dean of the Haskayne School of Business at the University of Calgary and an associate professor in the strategy and entrepreneurship.