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How To Be More Strategic

Eric Jacobson

Today’s business leaders are faced with many challenges: intense competition, increased regulation, and the need for constant innovation. It identifies the building blocks of a strategic leader and pinpoints areas for improvement to help individuals reach their full potential.

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How To Move From Being Tactical To Being Truly Strategic

Eric Jacobson

Today’s business leaders are faced with many challenges: intense competition, increased regulation, and the need for constant innovation. It identifies the building blocks of a strategic leader and pinpoints areas for improvement to help individuals reach their full potential.

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Why Innovators Should Study the Rise and Fall of the Venetian Empire

Harvard Business Review

But when change comes suddenly, it can turn strengths into weaknesses and sweep away even thousand-year success stories. From the thirteenth century on, the Arsenal nurtured creativity and spurred innovation and entrepreneurship in the construction of its galleys. What’s the lesson for entrepreneurs and innovators today?

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

Change and innovation are choices, not givens, in any organization, and there are managerial levers for making these selections wisely. Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis.

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For Growth, New Ideas Aren't Enough

Harvard Business Review

There it was again in the Wall Street Journal on August 29: a beloved and uplifting, but unfortunately not effective, approach to driving growth through innovation. The idea is that companies need to encourage innovation from everyone and at every level in the organization. Trainers are brought in to teach everyone to be an innovator.

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The Risks and Benefits of Using AI to Detect Crime

Harvard Business Review

The success rate is generally low: On average, only 2% of the transactions flagged by the systems ultimately reflect a true crime or malicious intent. But determining whether AI crime-fighting solutions are a good strategic fit for a company depends on whether the benefits outweigh the risks that accompany them. Adopting AI.

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The Right Kind of Conflict Leads to Better Products

Harvard Business Review

When partners in an alliance come into conflict, it can be just what is needed to produce a technically and commercially successful product. ” Members from each partner organization rate the alliance in areas related to strategic fit, operational fit, and cultural fit. The results were fascinating.