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When Talent Started Driving Economic Growth

Harvard Business Review

I came out of a standard Keynesian economics education at Harvard College in 1979. It was remarkably closed: from what I could tell, we read Chicago economists , from whom the supply-side movement arose, exclusively to mock them. But I graduated into an economy that was couldn’t be explained by applying the tools I had been taught.

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Timing of Innovation – Getting the Odds on Your Side

Innovation Excellence

What’s more, the digital age has further highlighted the importance of getting timing right, because many markets have quickly transitioned from local to global, winner-takes-most markets. In these markets, the couple of companies that are first to scale , reap nearly all of the rewards. How can timing go wrong?

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The Nostalgia Trap

Harvard Business Review

For much of the 20th century, it was possible to argue that the inequities of life stemmed from the incomplete expansion of technology, industry, and the market, and would be resolved by further modernization. But for several decades it’s been clear that the gains of modernization for some have produced substantial losses for others.

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