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A Four-wheel-drive Diamond in the Rough Leadership Model

Great Leadership By Dan

One of the cool perks of making the switch to university-based executive education is that I get to work with and learn from a lot of awesome business school professors. These results can be, in my experience, best conceived as a progression of outcomes moving from intangible assets to tangible outcomes.

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On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

Harvard Business Review

Societies must constantly strive to ensure that novel ideas in government, business, education, and every other realm are wedded to strong ethical values. The Balanced Scorecard's primary form of novelty is that it takes into account the intangible assets that are so crucial for information-age companies.

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Startups Could Fundamentally Change the Way Big Investors Operate

Harvard Business Review

The success of institutional-investment firms is socioeconomically vital: Their task is to grow the financial assets needed to fund retirements, development, education, scientific research, and many other capabilities associated with pensions, endowments, foundations, sovereign wealth funds, and the like.

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How Work Will Change When Most of Us Live to 100

Harvard Business Review

Just lengthening that second stage of full-time work may secure the financial assets needed for a 100-year life, but such relentless work will inevitably deplete precious intangible assets such as productive skills, vitality, happiness, and friendship. The same is true for education.

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Research: The Digitization of Banks Disproportionately Hurts Women Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

These meetings allowed for the exchange of important information about the business model, intangible assets, future prospects, and more. Our results show that women face increased difficulty in accessing bank financing, and specifically that women’s entrepreneurship suffers heavily from the recent transformation among banks.

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Even in a Digital World, Globalization Is Not Inevitable

Harvard Business Review

Digital devotees tend to conflate digitization with intangible assets — the intensity of which has indeed soared in the last half century — in ways that exaggerate digital transformation’s potential. Online educational technology could reduce cross-border flows of university students.

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GDP Is a Wildly Flawed Measure for the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

Our education and professional training systems have failed to keep pace. New workers embarking on their careers are finding that their education is incomplete in many areas essential to our technology-driven lives today. It struggles to account for today’s intangible assets—services, insights, and networks.

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