The company, Genius Group, was behind a number of successful brands including Diesel.

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In a recent NY Times article, titled The Auteur Vs. the Committee, Randall Stross stokes a debate that rages in world of innovation: Is it better to rely a single genius or group collaboration?

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It was a stroke of group genius.

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It would surely be run close by the ghastly low-slung British embassy, now, amazingly, disposed of by some salesman of genius to a German telecoms group.

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Alas, the genius money management teams from Standard Life, Ashmore Group, Schroders, Matthews, JPM and even the vampire squid can beat the market.

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And we've done this, and this is why I got that award (the MacArthur Foundation "genius grant") was that we were the first group to identify an organism that comes from humans -- not dairy products -- that has demonstrable health benefits in both mice and in human cells, and we hope to someday give this to humans clinically to treat various indications.

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Mr Mehldau is steeped in the classical repertoire of jazz, and he reveals new colours and complexities in works by that genius Thelonious Monk, George Gershwin and even Radiohead, a pop group.

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