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TopCoder’s business model is a powerful pot-pourri of outsourcing, software development, community and pure competition. Julian Birkinshaw and Stuart Crainer investigate.

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Thousands of business books are published every year. Their impact on the real world of business is as often derided as it is debated. Whoever ran a business, any business, by the book? Henry Stewart does. His London-based company, Happy, is inspired by his business reading, particularly Maverick! by Ricardo Semler. Julian Birkinshaw and Stuart Crainer get happy.

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Gary Hamel’s new book, The Future of Management, is set to be the business book of the year and to shape the management agenda in 2008. LabNotes looks to the future.

Whether in the bestselling Competing for the Future (co-authored with CK Prahalad), 2001’s Leading the Revolution, or in a succession of influential articles in the Harvard Business Review, Gary Hamel has always enjoyed challenging the traditional theories and orthodoxies.

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At London’s Global Leadership Summit, MLab Managing Director, Gary Hamel, introduced UBS as MLab’s first corporate founding partner. The pioneering research-based partnership will see UBS working with MLab to generate management innovations directly relevant to its organisational goals.

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Innovation is often focused on products. Yet the leader of one Indian company is shifting the business model of a 38,000-employee organisation. Julian Birkinshaw reveals how innovation can also apply to the basic principles of management.

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