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Creating a New Approach to Engineering and Innovation at Hitachi Metals - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HITACHI METALS, LTD.

Harvard Business Review

As the new general manager of the Global Research & Innovative Technology Center (GRIT) at Hitachi Metals, Kenichi Inoue is tasked with creating an updated framework for research and development in advanced materials, helping his organization make the shift to a new approach to engineering and innovation in a disrupted world.

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The Real Solution Is Growth

Harvard Business Review

Recent headlines have focused on the debt ceiling , the recent credit rating downgrade , unemployment , and the other thorny fiscal challenges facing the United States. Focus on green technology, the next area that has the best promise of creating a platform for more innovation.

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Badges? We Don’t Need No LinkedIn Badges

Harvard Business Review

At an “ Unconference ” my colleagues and I hosted in Palo Alto last year, Sam Lessin , the Head of the Identity Product Group at Facebook, talked about the way in which human societies evolved trust networks to increase efficiency by connecting with more trading partners and by capturing more information about those partners over time.