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The HBR List of Audacious Ideas

The new year begins precariously. The global economy vacillates between signs of recovery and omens of collapse. Businesses seem paralyzed. Even though they’re sitting on $2 trillion in cash, they’re risk-averse, strategically incremental, and notably lacking in fresh ideas.

A version of this article appeared in the January–February 2012 issue of Harvard Business Review.

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