Commentaries
Here is an introduction to Report 2 in the 2013 Shift Index series, published by Deloitte University Press. Its co-authors are John Hagel III, John Seely Brown (JSB), Tamara Samoylova, & Michael Lui. To learn more, please click here. *…
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Here is a recent post by Freek Vermeulen for the HBR Blog Network. To read the complete article, check out the wealth of free resources, and sign up for a subscription to HBR email alerts, please click here. * *…
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Here is an excerpt from an article by Chris Bradley, Angus Dawson, and Sven Smit for the McKinsey Quarterly, published by McKinsey & Company. In it, they discuss a systematic scan of the economic-profit performance of nearly 3,000 global companies…
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Here’s an excerpt from an article by Melissa Korn for the Wall Street Journal in which she explains how and why innovation education is getting innovative at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business. Its innovation program looks at how ideas are…
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Here is an excerpt from an article co-authored by Richard Dobbs, Jaana Remes, Sven Smit, James Manyika, Jonathan Woetzel, and Yaw Agyenim-Boateng, featured online by McKinsey & Company. Emerging markets are changing where and how the world does business. For…
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George Saunders (Class of ’88), professor of English and author of The New York Times best-seller Tenth of December (Random House, 2013), delivered the commencement speech at The College of Arts and Sciences’ undergraduate convocation ceremony on Saturday, May 11,…
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In The Innovation Expedition: A Visual Toolkit to Start Innovation (BIS Publishers, Amsterdam 2013), Gijs van Wulfen includes a brief but informative discussion of “accidental accidents.” 1. Columbus: When he first reached land during the first voyage, he thought he had…
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Dilbertisms A magazine ran a “Dilbert Quotations” contest. They were looking for people to submit quotations from their real-life Dilbert-type managers. Here are the finalists: 1. As of tomorrow, employees will only be able to access the building using individual…
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I am deeply grateful to “Sarah N” for providing the information that follows. Until now, I was unaware of most of these facts. * * * 104 years ago: o The average life expectancy for men was 47 years. o…
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New York Times Readers’ Advice for Young Women in the Workplace
In Adam Bryant’s special installment of Corner Office on women and leadership, four executives, ranging from the president of a beauty products company to the general counsel at Pfizer, discussed their success in business as a woman. Meanwhile, The Times…
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