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

Harvard Business Review

As technology continues to change and challenge even the most successful incumbent organizations in every industry, the cost of inertia is growing. Consider the dramatic shift in the types of assets that create market value. Despite the shift to intangible assets, executives and their strategists are sticking to the status quo.

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GDP Is a Wildly Flawed Measure for the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

New workers embarking on their careers are finding that their education is incomplete in many areas essential to our technology-driven lives today. While all of these are contributing factors, the major factor, in our view, is the deflationary effect of technology, which our measurement systems fail to account for.

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