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Why defense primes still can’t innovate
Professor Clayton M. Christensen was in his Harvard Business School office when his telephone rang. On the other end was William Cohen, Secretary of Defense, who asked: “Clay, I wonder if you could come to the Pentagon because we want to study what you have written.” That meeting would change not only the professor’s life but how the US military operates. The Defense Secretary had read Christensen’s book The Innovator’s Dilemma and wanted to know how his theory of disruption
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Blood-letting. Freud. Climate science…
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Awkward for those blaming climate change…
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Ridley: Why our public sector is so unproductive
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We have the revolution backwards
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It’s biology, not wordplay
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Ridley: We must finally embrace gene editing
America did what Britain only debated
Jun 26


Ridley: CO2 is greening the Earth
So why aren't climate alarmists celebrating?
Jun 18


We can’t let Degrowth win
Our kids’ future depends on it
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Ridley: How dangerous is the cruise ship hantavirus outbreak?
Here we go again... or maybe not.
May 15
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