Thought Leadership
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Why business ideas are not the same as business opportunities
Many budding entrepreneurs believe that an idea alone will guarantee them success and wealth, but they ignore that it takes time, effort and resources to turn a venture idea into a venture opportunity
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Can consumers be saved from their misguided decisions?
Even with a world of information at our fingertips, consumers routinely make bad decisions on everything from investments to health coverage. Can science help? Research by Joshua Schwartzstein and Benjamin Handel
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When winning means losing in negotiations
Be careful about imposing your terms as it may backfire
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Triple entry accounting & Block Chain - Are they vaccines for financial scams ?
Triple-entry accounting and by extension Blockchains are a way of agreeing on objective reality
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What if ordinary corporate innovation holds the key to success?
The main challenge for today's business community is to learn to hire, select, stimulate, protect and recognize its ordinary corporate innovators
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Using big data: 3 reasons it fails and 4 ways to make it work
If your company has already been successful without using data analytics, be aware that the switch will be harder for you than most
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More bang for your digital spend: Technology and R&D
Digitisation of research and development can generate significant returns for firms, argue ISB Professor Deepa Mani and colleagues, based on an empirical study of technology spill-overs from the IT industry across an array of other industries. Technology laggards risk being left behind as industry boundaries are redefined
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How should the web be governed?
With cloud computing in full rage, with so many big banks deciding to let go of traditional data warehouses and moving to the public cloud, someone has to define the responsibilities in the event of a data breach
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What should Mark Zuckerberg do?
Facebook is in crisis. Its business model is based on sharing customer data with partners, but many of those customers are in revolt over privacy concerns. James Heskett asks: What would you do if you were CEO Mark Zuckerberg?
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The four types of dysfunctional executives and how to handle them
Basic understanding and empathy can go a long way in helping toxic leaders recover their best selves
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WTO non-compliant subsidies: Impact on Indian apparel exporters
Why the government and export promotion councils have not taken any measures to have design alternative and "smart subsidies" for the industry in 2017, which could have been WTO compliant