Best in Brief:Breakthrough ideas for 2004

Frank Auton

Review of article in Harvard Business Review. The article lists 20 emergent ideas that are changing the way business is done, selected by the HBR editors for their list of breakthrough ideas for 2004.

Best in brief

Breakthrough ideas for 2004

Rakesh Khurana, Robert Sutton & Clay Shirky

From the fields of biology, neuroscience, economics, positive psychology, network science, marketing, management theory and more, this article details 20 emergent ideas that are changing the way business is done. These have been selected by the editors of Harvard Business Review and form their list of the breakthrough ideas for 2004. There is not room to review all 20, but here are three of these thought-provoking concepts:

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