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Institutions Are Key To Successful Entrepreneurship

The Horizons Tracker

The institutional conditions in a country were a major determinant of the quantity and quality of entrepreneurship, with successful entrepreneurs then taking the opportunity to subsequently influence institutions and either create new institutions or transform existing ones in a virtuous circle of improvement. Data colonies.

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How CMOs and CROs Can Be Allies

Harvard Business Review

Both practices have long developed insights into their customers based on data and analytics. That has coincided with marketing’s increased influence on strategy, driven by the unprecedented level of insights into customer behavior and trends that are now possible through analytics. Standardize customer data.

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Consider first the increasing use of auctions, which have a distinguished history in the development of economics. and other governments to help them design these often complicated auctions and by telecommunications companies trying to figure out the best strategies for bidding. Economists and finance.

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Subscription Businesses Are Booming. Here’s How to Value Them

Harvard Business Review

Previously dominated by the likes of newspapers, magazines, gyms, utilities, and telecommunications firms, more products and services are being offered to more people through subscriptions than ever before. Philippe Marion/Getty Images. The subscription business model is booming.

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The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011

Harvard Business Review

These six ideas emerged in 2010 as powerful "innovation invitations" and seem sure to intensify in power and influence. That is, the importance of "research & development" to business innovation. That's right. Contestification. It's easy to marry a WWWabsite with a contest, for example. WWWabs go mainstream worldwide next year.

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The Right CEO Personality for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

Drawing on her work with business leaders, she has developed the following categorization of how people prefer to think: Conceptual : Reads signs of coming change; sees the "big picture"; recognizes new possibilities; tolerates ambiguity; integrates ideas and concepts; communicates through analogy and metaphor; inspires with visions of the future.

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