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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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Why Leaders Need to Think More Like Professional Gamblers

Leading Blog

Probabilistic risk managers will think about the future of how they work. While their job may have been setting or applying strict credit policies in the past, they may now start to wonder whether their traditional credit rating models are still effective.

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Private Equity Can Make Firms More Innovative

Harvard Business Review

Further proving this, the researchers found that PE firms had the largest impact on innovation in industries and companies most likely to be financially constrained—industries, like manufacturing and pharmaceuticals, that are highly dependent on large outside investments, and firms that have a relatively low credit rating.

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Why Rational People Can’t Succeed as Economic Forecasters

Harvard Business Review

Bullock and Warren Persons of the Harvard Economic Service, who are almost completely forgotten now but briefly wielded global influence. The very idea that there’s this thing called the economy was something new. Everybody talks about Silicon Valley being this bunch of entrepreneurs who created the computer industry in their garages.