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HBR’s 2012 List of Audacious Ideas

Scott Berinato, HBR senior editor, featuring the ideas of Yale economist Robert Shiller, journalist Gregg Easterbrook, and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Ellen Goodman.




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Business Jargon Is Not a “Value-Add”

Dan Pallotta, president of Advertising for Humanity and author of "Uncharitable."




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Economics for Humans

Umair Haque, director of the Havas Media Labs and author of "Betterness: Economics for Humans."




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Breaking the Work/Family Deadlock

Stephanie Coontz, professor of history at The Evergreen State College and author of "A Strange Stirring."




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How to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions

Peter Bregman, author of "18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done."




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The Right Mindset for Success

Carol Dweck, professor at Stanford University and author of "Mindset: The New Psychology of Success."




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Designing Spaces for Creative Collaboration

Scott Doorley and Scott Witthoft, co-directors of the Environments Collaborative at the Stanford University d.school and authors of "Make Space."




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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar on Teamwork and Career Transitions

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, basketball legend, New York Times best-selling author, and filmmaker.




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The End of Customer Service Heroes

Frances Frei and Anne Morriss, authors of "Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business."




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Idea Watch: Harnessing Creativity

Andy O'Connell and Scott Berinato, editors of the Idea Watch section of HBR and The Daily Stat.




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How CEO Pay Became a Massive Bubble

Mihir Desai, Harvard Business School professor and author of the HBR article "The Incentive Bubble."




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Restoring America’s Innovation Economy

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School professor and author of the HBR article "Enriching the Ecosystem."




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Getting a Job in Today’s Market

John Lees, career strategist and author of "How to Get a Job You'll Love."




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Good Strategy’s Non-Negotiables

Chris Zook, partner at Bain & Company and co-head of the firm's global strategy practice.




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Making Decisions in Groups

Tom Davenport, Babson College professor and coauthor of "Judgment Calls: Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams That Got Them Right."




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Do Women Need Confidence—Or Quotas?

Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, CEO of the consultancy 20-first and author of "How Women Mean Business."




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Boost Your Productivity with Microbreaks

Charlotte Fritz, assistant professor at Portland State University.




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Christiane Amanpour on Leadership and Ambition

Christiane Amanpour, renowned war correspondent and news anchor.




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Growth Isn’t Rocket Science

Ken Favaro, senior partner at Booz & Company and coauthor of the HBR article "Creating an Organic Growth Machine."




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Winning in the Intention Economy

Doc Searls, alumnus fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and author of "The Intention Economy."




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The Myth of American Decline

Daniel Gross, columnist and economics editor for Yahoo! Finance and author of "Better, Stronger, Faster: The Myth of American Decline . . . and the Rise of a New Economy."




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Unilever’s CEO on Making Responsible Business Work

Paul Polman, CEO of Unilever.




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Can an Algorithm Teach Leadership?

Marcus Buckingham, founder of TMBC and author of "StandOut."




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Make Your Own Culturematic

Grant McCracken, anthropologist and author of "Culturematic: How Reality TV, John Cheever, a Pie Lab, Julia Child, Fantasy Football . . . Will Help You Create and Execute Breakthrough Ideas."




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Habits: Why We Do What We Do

Charles Duhigg, reporter for The New York Times and author of "The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business."




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Saving Banks from the Bankers

Sallie Krawcheck, former president of Bank of America Global Wealth & Investment Management and author of the HBR article "Four Ways to Fix Banks."




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How Effective Leaders Talk (and Listen)

Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind, authors of "Talk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations."




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Resilience Strategies for a Volatile World

Andrew Zolli, director of PopTech and coauthor of "Resilience: Why Things Bounce Back."




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The Power of the Introvert in Your Office

Susan Cain, author of "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can't Stop Talking."




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Sally Ride on Breaking Ground in Aerospace and Education

Sally Ride, former NASA astronaut and founder of Sally Ride Science.




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What’s Wrong with Today’s Entrepreneurs

Dan McGinn, HBR senior editor and author of the article "Too Many Pivots, Too Little Passion."




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In a Fast World, Think Slowly

Frank Partnoy, professor of law and finance at the University of San Diego and author of "Wait: The Art and Science of Delay."




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Pressed for Time? Give Some of Yours Away

Cassie Mogilner, assistant professor of marketing at the Wharton School and author of the HBR article "You'll Feel Less Rushed If You Give Time Away."




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How Campaign Finance Reform Could Help Business

Russ Feingold, former US senator from Wisconsin and founder of Progressives United.




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Reinventing Strategy for the Social Era

Nilofer Merchant, author of "11 Rules for Creating Value in the Social Era."




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How a Culture of Accountability Can Deteriorate

Tom Ricks, journalist and author of the HBR article "What Ever Happened to Accountability?"




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China and India Are an Opportunity, Not a Threat

Michael Silverstein, cofounder of The Boston Consulting Group's global consumer practice and coauthor of "The $10 Trillion Prize."




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Campaign for Your Career

Dorie Clark, strategy consultant and author of the HBR article "A Campaign Strategy for Your Career."




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Big Data Solves Big Problems

Kevin Boudreau, London Business School professor.




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Nate Silver on Predicting the Unpredictable

Nate Silver, statistician and founder of The New York Times political blog FiveThirtyEight.com.




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Has America Outsourced Too Much?

Gary Pisano, Harvard Business School professor and coauthor of "Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance."




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How to Get the Right Job

Jodi Glickman, founder of the communication training firm Great on the Job and contributor to the "HBR Guide to Getting a Job."




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Ernest Shackleton’s Lessons for Leaders in Harsh Climates

Nancy Koehn, Harvard Business School historian and editor of "The Story of American Business."




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The Four Fears Blocking You from Great Ideas

Tom and David Kelley, leaders of IDEO and authors of the forthcoming HBR article "Reclaim Your Creative Confidence."




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Why You Should Cannibalize Your Company

James Allworth, regular contributor to HBR and coauthor of the Nieman Reports article "Breaking News: Mastering the Art of Disruptive Innovation in Journalism."




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The Indispensable, Unlikely Leadership of Abraham Lincoln

Gautam Mukunda, Harvard Business School assistant professor and author of "Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter."




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Find the Next Disruptor Before it Finds You

Maxwell Wessel, fellow at the Forum for Growth and Innovation and coauthor of the HBR article "Surviving Disruption."




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The Rise of the Global Super-Rich

Chrystia Freeland, editor of Thomson Reuters Digital and author of "Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else."




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Boost Your Productivity With Social Media

Alexandra Samuel, vice president of social media at Vision Critical.




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Jeff Bezos on Leading for the Long-Term at Amazon

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com.