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How to Design Work Projects for Maximum Learning

Harvard Business Review

Enrollment in learning programs has surged over the last few years to generate a global executive education market of over $70 billion a year. Because they often have to collaborate across units or functions to achieve their objectives, they become more skilled at leading without formal authority. Make it a stretch. Do it fast.

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Rising Sea Levels Won’t Doom U.S. Coastal Cities

Harvard Business Review

The induced innovation literature has taught us that drug companies focus their efforts on researching and marketing new drugs for which there is expected to be great demand (think of aging baby boomers’ aching knees). Companies such as Coastal Risk Consulting are developing flood risk statistical models at the parcel level.

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

MedStar operated nine hospitals, but realized that its long-held objective of increasing revenue and profits at those venues was unsustainable, given the outcries over runaway medical costs. As its name implies, the objective of the future-state portfolio is to paint a picture of the organization 10 or 20 years into the future.