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Human Nature: The X Factor in Economic Theory

Marshall Goldsmith

However, the starting point for behavioral economists is how people behave, often in a controlled lab environment, which often leads to different conclusions about the logic and efficacy of many things, including mortgages, savings, and health care in both business and personal realms. Won't the market fix consumer mistakes?

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For Some Platforms, Network Effects Are No Match for Local Know-How

Harvard Business Review

Uber’s setback in the international market, however, wasn’t its first. To venture capitalists and the financial market, no business model is more attractive than a platform. Any platform still needs to achieve a product-market fit to succeed in the long run. Such knowledge is in fact the prerequisite to innovation.

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Why Retailers Should Target Female Consumers

Harvard Business Review

In aggregate, women represent a growth market more than twice the size of China and India combined, but the women we surveyed felt that retailers didn't take them seriously. For health care providers, how can you again manage appointments, service times and follow-up to complete delivery in one hour or less? Still, U.S.

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Don’t Judge the Economy by the Number of Start-Ups

Harvard Business Review

The implicit axiom here is that robust companies that have sustained and grown over the longer term are somehow less innovative. And Alibaba is a 16 year-old company, and no one is claiming it is sluggish or un-innovative.) But wait a minute – is starting more new businesses always a good thing?

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Prepare for the New Permanent Temp

Harvard Business Review

The fastest-growing segments of America''s job market — by far — are temporary and part-time employment. Workflows and innovation initiatives have been artfully reorganized around "projects" to facilitate faster, cheaper and easier contingent participation. They''re rethinking their economic relationships with the rest.

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Behind China's Roaring Solar Industry

Harvard Business Review

Wednesday, Bloomberg reported that Chinese solar stocks had soared based on market expectations that demand in China for alternative energy will increase given the Chinese government's increasing solar capacity targets. The opportunities are there — what is your firm doing about them?

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The $300 House: A Hands-On Approach to a Wicked Problem

Harvard Business Review

Suri proposed potential solutions, including innovative materials, new ways of thinking of the construction process, and building up. Much of the economy consists of hardware shops, carpenters, plumbers, concrete makers, masons, even real-estate agents. For us, good business and social innovation are one and the same.

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