Archive for the ‘innovation’ Category

High finance, complexity and disaster

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Here is the paradox of markets: they are bigger, more liquid and more lucrative than ever but mistakes by a handful of companies send shock waves around the world. All created by complex financial innovation and new fangled forms of money like derivatives.

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CEOs and the future

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

How can we tell whether a company will keep innovating? Check the language of the CEO, according to a new study. In their letters to shareholders, CEOs more focused on the future tend to lead their companies into more innovation.

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SOX squashing innovation

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Here is research showing that Sarbanes-Oxley stifles innovation in companies, large and small.

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