For about a thousand years prior to the 20th century the Chinese used a form of execution known as death by a thousand cuts. That is an apt description of the consequences of the business as usual practices of many companies facing today’s challenges.For example, many executives function as though they were still in an era [...]
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Harvard Professor Rakesh Khurana, who teaches a doctoral seminar on management and is an expert on the CEO labor market, writes caustically that we should not be surprised at the rise of corporate malfeasance. He advocates rejuvenating intellectually and morally the training of our future business leaders. Khurana contends that university-based business schools were founded to [...] A new slogan may be ascending to an important position in the lexicon of health care. It is ?disruptive innovations?, a term used persuasively by the author of a new book, The Innovator?s Prescription, published by McGraw-Hill. The rise of technologies that introduce the ability to diagnose precisely the root causes of disease and create targeted [...] In his weekly radio address to the nation, President Elect Obama made this statement: “More than ever before, science holds the key to our survival as a planet and our security and prosperity as a nation. It’s time we once again put science at the top of our agenda and worked to restore America’s place as [...] |
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