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Consultant Ninja: The Financial Crisis is a Wicked Problem.

Consultant Ninja

Wall Street, aka American financial industry, is global. Part of that money went into US industry to fuel the innovation, but for the part of that money that dislike risk, it went either into T-Bills or AAA securities. Kind of controversial for Americans perhaps, but should be logical. Many of Fortune 500 companies are not. Newer Post.

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4 Mistakes That Kill Crowdsourcing Efforts

Harvard Business

TopCoder stepped from strength to strength, raising $11M in 2010. Similarly, NineSigma’s intellectual property (IP) licensing restrictions discourage “ permissionless innovation ” where third parties are free to explore new technologies or businesses without seeking prior approval.

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Do Lawyers Make Better CEOs Than MBAs?

Harvard Business

For the past several years, Wells Fargo has been run by MBAs, while Bank of America’s CEO since 2010, Brian Moynihan, has a law degree from Notre Dame. We did not observe an obvious selection bias in which industries hired lawyer CEOs. Lawyers were much less aggressive in accrual accounting relative to industry levels.

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How China’s Government Helps — and Hinders — Innovation

Harvard Business

Globally, these are industries where the state is often the sole or dominant customer. From 2010-2015, the share of China-origin patents among all patents granted by the US Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) was only 2.2%. There’s thus been a lot of activity on what you might call the “input side.” respectively.

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Where Trump Does (and Doesn’t) Have Leverage with China

Harvard Business

has created no net new jobs for those whose highest educational level is a high-school degree (or less) since the job market bottomed out in 2010, but it has created 4 million jobs for people with a bachelor’s degree. service industries like higher education, publishing, design, and consulting. But the lower end of U.S.