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Why Leaders Are Still So Hesitant to Invest in New Business Models

Harvard Business Review

According to our research at the SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management , it’s the beliefs of leaders that drive organizational investments, board selection, and management team development and selection, and these beliefs do not change quickly. Outdated beliefs about the world can linger for decades in a leadership team.

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GDP Is a Wildly Flawed Measure for the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

As the economy has evolved from one age to another (from industrial to services to information to network), our basic measurement systems have not kept pace. Gross Domestic Product (GDP), our core measure of prosperity, was developed during the industrial age.

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