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What It Will Take to Fix HR

Harvard Business Review

At the same time, alternative approaches to accessing capital and funding projects proliferated, forcing financial decision-making to become increasingly sophisticated. In the early 1980’s, sixty percent of corporate value creation emanated from the optimization of tangible assets.

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What Apple, Lending Club, and AirBnB Know About Collaborating with Customers

Harvard Business Review

True, customers can customize their M&Ms, build their own bikes with Trek Project One, create unique doors for their home at Jen-Weld, and design their own Nike running shoes. With Transactors, Supporters, and Promoters, the company is responsible for fulfilling the customers’ needs.

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How Work Will Change When Most of Us Live to 100

Harvard Business Review

Just lengthening that second stage of full-time work may secure the financial assets needed for a 100-year life, but such relentless work will inevitably deplete precious intangible assets such as productive skills, vitality, happiness, and friendship. The same is true for education.

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What the Companies That Predict the Future Do Differently

Harvard Business Review

The level of difficulty rises when management is asked to deal with a set of predictive futures rather than projections based on past performance. The ultimate goal is to treat information as a tangible flow rather than an intangible asset stuck on the balance sheet. Information & technology Leadership'