What are the Breakthrough Ideas for 2009? Harvard Business Review Lists 20 Big Ideas

The ideas address important issues like economic crisis, strategic decision making, tapping new markets, finding and keeping top talent, harnessing network effects, dealing with disruptive technologies and business models.
Says Harvard Business Review, Caught between two elemental forces one called Calamity and the other called Change we launch our latest edition of breakthrough articles into the teeth of a gale. This years HBR List includes ideas that we think are more useful than fanciful, more immediately practicable than speculative.

Here is a snapshot of HBRs Breakthrough Ideas for 2009:
1. Just Because Im Nice...We often judge colleagues on the basis of their perceived warmth and competence, finding clues to these qualities in stereotypes rooted in race, gender, or nationality. Many of our decisions about fellow workers are thus premised on faulty data harming judged and judgers alike, comments HBR.
2. Beware Global Cooling
3. Institutional Memory Goes Digital
4. Stumbling to a Longer Life
Architects Arakawa and Madeline Gins have declared their intention not to die by creating uncomfortable spaces designed to enhance longevity, writes HBR.
5. Launching a Better Brain
6. The Rise of Economic Forensics
7. The IKEA FactorPeople place a disproportionately high value on products they had a hand in making, writes HBR.
8. Consumer Credit Safety Laws
9. State Capitalism
10. Nows the Time to Invest in Africa
11. Earths Central Nervous System
Progress in the production of capbable, low-cost nanoscale sensors is the first step toward a global sensing network capable of monitoring every corner of Earths natural and built environments, writes HBR.
12. A Looming American Diaspora
13. Harnessing Social Pressure
14. Western Union World
15. Best Uses of Social Networks
16. Should You Outsource Your Brain?
Offshore outsourcers have a new and intriguing service offering: decision making, writes HBR.
17. Here Comes the Semantic Web
18. The Business of Biomimicry Profitable businesses can be built on innovations copied from nature, a discipline known as biomimicry, informs HBR.
19. Dynamics of Personal Influence
20. Forget Citibank, Borrow from Bob
The financial crisis will trigger an increase in peer-to-peer financing, writes HBR.