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Foreword

What makes a great business idea? How can we tell whether it will stand the test of time? And why do some new ideas have greater influence than others in shaping the environment that businesses operate in today?

These are the questions that a distinguished panel of judges have evaluated in drawing up a list of the 50 ideas that most shaped business today.

Innovation – new ideas, reforms and other forms of change – are, of course, vital in stimulating progress. The task of the panel was to weigh the merits of ideas whose impact informs us about the past, the present and the future.

The selection was based on suggestions from our readers, ...

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