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How the Insurance Industry Can Push Us to Prepare for Climate Change

Harvard Business Review

First, individuals focus on short time horizons and thus underprepare for future threats. In short, the insurance industry is adapting in order to profit from climate risk, and in doing so it will help society adapt as well. Third, people are over-optimistic and thus underestimate their own risk exposure.

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How to (Gradually) Become a Different Company

Harvard Business Review

The US-based company used to be a diversified industrial group, with activities in all types of glass, chemicals, paints, optical materials, and biomedical systems. Accordingly, it has systematically published figures about the evolution of its business portfolio in terms of sales by segment (e.g.,

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What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present

Harvard Business Review

From time to time, the basis of competition in an industry shifts so dramatically that shifting with it requires a new long-term vision that calls for the organization to do things it never would have done in the past. Doing that required developing a new business model in which MedStar would get paid to keep patients well.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

Your relationships are also the best way to change with your environment and industry, even if your formal role or assignment has not changed. The questions represent a short version of the survey I use with my students. It protects you from being clueless about the political dynamics that so often kill good ideas.

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