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Social Class In The C-Suite

The Horizons Tracker

By contrast, the IT and engineering sectors were far more accessible to people from working-class backgrounds. These CEOs had transitioned through the classes as a result of their educational performance and were highly present in sectors like technology, engineering, health, and education.

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How To Discover Your Organization’s Next Big Growth Opportunities

Tanveer Naseer

The following is a guest piece by Innovation Excellence co-founder Rowan Gibson. What most companies understand now is that the only way to drive profitable growth and wealth creation over the longer term is to innovate. But that’s not the way radical innovators envisage their organizations. This is quite understandable.

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Bringing Science To Summer

The Horizons Tracker

Countries around the world have made a concerted effort to try and encourage more young people to take an interest in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), with an understandable belief that these topics are vital for the competitive edge of a modern economy.

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Veterans Among the Best Civilian Leaders

Strategy Driven

Always at the forefront of innovation, technologies pioneered by the military are often adopted by the commercial sector; companies looking for cyber knowledge or network engineering skills can find this expertise among veterans.

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Technology Progresses When Business, Government, and Academia Work Together

Harvard Business Review

Although US firms had pioneered and dominated the technology for two decades, they were now getting pummeled by cheaper Japanese imports. At the same time, the marketplace has become so fiercely competitive—and investors so demanding—that few are willing to take a flyer on an unproven technology.

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Is the Cost of Innovation Falling?

Harvard Business Review

If the cost of innovation is falling, that should enable more of it from poorer countries, companies or cooperatives. If it's not, the already big and already rich will dominate innovation. Some of this may just be the product of the high regulatory costs in pharmaceuticals, but research by Harvard's F.M.

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Five Questions Companies Should Ask Before Making an Innovation-Driven Acquisition

Harvard Business Review

The Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche is nothing if not determined in its quest to acquire Illumina, the San Diego-based leader in genetic-sequencing equipment. An acquirer looking for innovation would have been likelier to try to buy Gateway, a company that is almost an after-thought now. billion tender offer directly to shareholders.