article thumbnail

Five Ways to Build Your Wealth: A Guide

Strategy Driven

Invest in bonds of various types, credit ratings , and maturities. By staying current with the latest trends and technologies in your field, you can make yourself more valuable to employers and increase your chances of getting a raise or a higher-paying job. Invest in cash, gold, or other alternative assets.

article thumbnail

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.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Impact of the Blockchain Goes Beyond Financial Services

Harvard Business Review

The technology most likely to change the next decade of business is not the social web, big data, the cloud, robotics, or even artificial intelligence. It’s the blockchain, the technology behind digital currencies like Bitcoin. Blockchain technology is complex, but the idea is simple. They make it difficult to cheat.

article thumbnail

Using Digital Exhaust to Improve Sales

Harvard Business Review

At one B2B technology company, for example, account managers were supposed to focus their efforts on their highest-value, “top of the pyramid” accounts. It notifies a company if one of its competitors files a credit check on a customer, signaling potential defection. How Digital Business Models Are Changing.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Why Leaders Need to Think More Like Professional Gamblers

Leading Blog

O NE OF the unfortunate side effects of living in an age of accelerating technology is having to deal with increased uncertainty. 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.

article thumbnail

Africa’s Unique Opportunity to Promote Inclusive Growth

Harvard Business Review

The AfDB has the strongest credit rating of any organization in Africa and in 2008, it surpassed the World Bank in lending to Africa , a signal of Africa’s growing agency in its own development. China, and most countries of Western Europe. In the coming years, expect the AfDB to pioneer approaches to inclusive growth.