July, 2017

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The Financial Industry Needs to Start Planning for the Next 50 Years, Not the Next Five

Harvard Business

Despite rapid innovations in data processing and machine learning, many businesses have yet to make the leap from the Industrial Age to the information age, and the gap between technological and organizational progress is widening. Closing this gap requires much more than short-term fixes, like adopting new technologies. Insight Center.

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What Inclusive Urban Development Can Look Like

Harvard Business

Large cities like New York and Los Angeles, as well as leading tech and knowledge hubs like Seattle and San Francisco, have experienced gentrification, economic segregation, and a disappearing middle class. Inclusive prosperity is the idea that the opportunity and benefits of economic growth should be widely shared by all segments of society.

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How GE Built an Innovation Lab to Rapidly Prototype Appliances

Harvard Business

Many large companies yearn to rekindle the innovative magic of entrepreneurship, but very few actually succeed. The reasons have been well documented and include: Large, established companies answer to investors who value predictable, consistent financial results, and so are intolerant of the risks inherent in bold innovation.

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Making Sense of Our Very Competitive, Super Monopolistic Economy

Harvard Business

A company has an innovative idea, which for a while provides competitive advantage. Later on, a new innovator comes along and pushes it aside. In the 1980s and 1990s, Blockbuster modernized the movie rental business. But Zingales fears that this isn’t happening as often as it should. Instead, he argues, the U.S.

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Why Business Leaders Need to Read More Science Fiction

Harvard Business

Singapore has overtaken Silicon Valley as the world’s innovation hub after FDA regulation prompts a brain drain from California. At the end of the 19th century, New York City stank. One hundred fifty thousand horses ferried people and goods through the streets of Manhattan, producing 45,000 tons — tons! — of manure a month.

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If Only It Was So Easy

Martinka Consulting

On May 25, 2017, the Wall Street Journal’s tech column was about how almost all of us have personal information exposed online, much more than we realize. The lean and mean culture with people working long and hard hours “getting the job done,” which doesn’t allow for innovation, creativity, or strategy changes.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms in Boston

Management Consulted

BCG’s clients typically include many of the world’s 500 largest companies – BCG Boston is no exception, but in this office the focus is on healthcare, financial services, industrial goods, retail, and high tech. We bring to you the Top 10 consulting firms in Boston area and the MC reasons as to why they made it to this list.