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Why Businesses Must Grasp Millennial Thinking or Face Economic Calamity

Great Leadership By Dan

And businesses that fail to understand the Millennial mindset are destined to fall behind their competition – and perhaps plummet into irrelevancy, says Gui Costin, an entrepreneur, consultant and author of Millennials Are Not Aliens. Millennials scour the internet to learn about a brand or product before making a purchase.

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Why the Future of Social Science Is with Private Companies

Harvard Business Review

The Reproducibility Project found it could substantively replicate the results of fewer than 40% of 100 high-profile experiments published in peer-reviewed journals. I’m not talking here about research into “Is this product safe?” ” or “Does this pill work?”

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Are CEOs Overhyped and Overpaid?

Harvard Business Review

This is particularly true when it comes to leaders and entrepreneurs. My focus was on peer-reviewed journal articles (academic papers) that included reliable measures of CEO attributes (e.g., Throughout the Western world, and increasingly elsewhere, individual performance is glorified over and above collective team efforts.

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Overcoming Fragmentation in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

America is a nation of innovators and entrepreneurs. At Mayo Clinic, we have chosen a different path — a path focused on sharing our most scalable product: our knowledge. Through this commitment, Mayo Clinic physicians and scientists have contributed more than 400 peer-reviewed papers on quality improvement in the last five years.

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Why Men Have More Help Getting to the C-Suite

Harvard Business Review

Executive after executive came out, presented a new product or upgrade, and emphasized how new and cool it was. A typical comment came from Mark, a successful serial entrepreneur in the tech sector and CEO at Pfister Strategy Group, Inc., “An overwhelming majority of those I have sponsored in my arena have been male.

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