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How Home Ownership Affects Voting Patterns

The Horizons Tracker

This concept, called the “homevoter” effect, was first introduced by Dartmouth College professor William Fischel in 2001. The researchers looked at 30 years of data from the Federal Housing Finance Agency Housing Price Index.

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Apple, Don't Weaken the Garden Walls

Harvard Business Review

In 2001, BusinessWeek published an article entitled "Sorry, Steve: Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work." In 2001, they called Steve Jobs "The Graying Prince of a Shrinking Kingdom." I don't think they understand the game Apple is playing. And perhaps they haven't for a long time. Not that they're alone.

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Make Agility Part of Your Process

Harvard Business Review

With increasing industry disruption, efficiency is fast becoming of secondary importance to innovation and agility. For example, in 2001, IBM set up a permanent transformation organization designed to anticipate and respond to the increasingly unpredictable changes in its markets. It's not just standardizing and streamlining.

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Many CEOs Aren’t Breakthrough Innovators (and That’s OK)

Harvard Business Review

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D.

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What 20 Years as a Remote Organization Has Taught Us About Managing Remote Teams

Harvard Business Review

Clarke painted a picture of how computers would change our way of life by the year 2001. For instance, we often announce an innovation budget and invite applications to pilot ideas. In his 1974 interview with ABC News , science fiction author Arthur C.

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What GE’s Board Could Have Done Differently

Harvard Business Review

During Jeff Immelt’s tenure as CEO of General Electric, from 2001 until 2017, the company’s stock price fell by over 30%, a decline of roughly $150 billion in shareholder value. The Board Had No Finance Committee. GE’s board had another major structural defect: It lacked a finance committee.

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How Amazon Trained Its Investors to Behave

Harvard Business Review

By the fourth quarter of 2001 — that is, within about 21 months — it was turning a profit. Well, he's a hedge fund veteran who has always taken a skeptical view of Wall Street, treating it more as a loopy rich uncle than the efficient information processor of standard finance theory.