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Stereotypes Can Force Older Workers Into Retirement

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers conducted an ethnographic study at eight small and medium-sized companies within Denmark’s finance and production sectors, involving 92 interviews with senior staff, managers, union representatives, and HR personnel.

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Design Matters

N2Growth Blog

Whether it is aesthetic, functional, creative, process, innovative, intellectual, technical or applicational…design matters. The iPod pioneered innovative design in the mp3 player vertical with great technical design, outstanding functional design, and is in a class by itself with regard to aesthetic design.

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How the Insurance Industry Can Push Us to Prepare for Climate Change

Harvard Business Review

But the emerging challenge of reducing risk exposure for coastal residents creates new opportunities for firms that can innovate and provide new solutions. In short, the insurance industry is adapting in order to profit from climate risk, and in doing so it will help society adapt as well. Dating back to at least F.

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Workforce Analytics Isn't as Scary as It Sounds

Harvard Business Review

ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you what it comes to." How can we share insights and innovations that allow our employees to be more productive? Once the shining example of call-center customer service, they dropped to nearly last in the industry in customer satisfaction in 2007. A man who is.

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

From time to time, the basis of competition in an industry shifts so dramatically that shifting with it requires a new long-term vision that calls for the organization to do things it never would have done in the past. The innovation portfolio. Those three business portfolios are: The future state portfolio. The investment portfolio.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

and China take the lead in tech innovation. And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. Investing in innovation capacity. billion).

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