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In 1972, the (future) Nobel Prize–winning physicist Philip Anderson published an article in the journal Science titled “More Is Different.” Dr. Anderson was exploring what happens when a number of ...

When John Reed, longtime chairman of Citicorp, accepted the Academy of Management’s Distinguished Executive of the Year award in 1999, he ended his acceptance speech by challenging his audience of ...

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