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The Post-Covid World Sees Innovation Spread Its Wings

The Horizons Tracker

Over the last few decades, innovation activity has become concentrated in clusters or ecosystems, where finance, academia, industry and entrepreneurs rub shoulders to allow the free flow of ideas. Under such conditions, entrepreneurs must be creators who build industries rather than disrupters who change them.”.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Deepa Prahalad – Focused on design and emerging markets. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard. His vast experience from serving on the Committees of Finance, Judiciary, Education, and Rules. World authority on project management. Co-author: Predictable Magic. Inaugural member of Thinkers50 India.

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Seven Ways to Connect With Your Designer

Harvard Business Review

Find Common Language: Designers don't typically study finance, accounting, or economics so communicating to them in these business contexts usually only adds to confusion. But they're a great way to connect with your design team and initiate the collaborative process with promise.

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End the Religion of ROE

Harvard Business Review

DuPont sent Donaldson Brown, a promising engineer-turned-finance staffer, to Detroit to sort things out, and sort them out he did. Prahalad pointed out, the "bottom of the pyramid" is a market and not a social problem. Brown noted a simple fact: Return on equity can be broken down into a three-part equation. As the late C.

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