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Ram Nidumolu, the founder and CEO of InnovaStrat, C.K. Prahalad, a professor of Strategy at the University of Michigan, and M.R. Rangaswami, founder of the Corporate Eco Formun, report on how being environmentally-friendly is more than just a corporate social responsibility. It's the road to innovation.

To succeed, companies must consider their "core competencies", this article from Harvard Business Review states. Authors C.K. Prahalad of the University of Michigan and Gary Hamel of the London Business School explain that if a corporation starts by building competencies in various areas, its core products emerge from these competencies, thereby making it much more flexible in readjusting its focus to respond to the changing market.

This issue includes HBR's annual list of breakout ideas. Then, there are two complete articles about the decisions managers face. In the first, authors Joseph Brower and Clark Gilbert explain "How Manager' Everyday Decisions Create or Destroy Your Company's Strategy." Then, "In Praise of the Incompetent Leader," authors Deborah Ancona, Thomas Malone, Wanda Orlikowski, and Peter Senge say it's OK for leaders to not be perfect in every area.