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The U.S. Startup Economy Is in Both Better and Worse Shape than We Thought

Harvard Business Review

We’ve long known that new businesses matter to the economy and that it’s a small group of fast-growing firms that matter most, because of the jobs and innovation they bring. A new restaurant or dry cleaner probably won’t end up hiring thousands of employees or commercializing new technology.

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New Ways to Collaborate for Process Improvement

Harvard Business Review

Emerging social networking technologies offer new ways to overcome these boundaries. IBM has accelerated collaboration with " innovation jams " that engage everyone in identifying opportunities. Since 2001, IBM has used jams to get 300,000 employees and others around the world to explore and solve problems.

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Consumer Warning Labels Aren’t Working

Harvard Business Review

In 2001 the U.S. A 2003 U.S. Going forward, we must remember that in our time of revolutionary technological progress, almost any innovation brings minor risks along with its benefits. A few innovations impose major risks, or even worse. A second example is warnings related to mercury in seafood.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.”

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Why Would Amazon Want to Sell a Mobile Phone?

Harvard Business Review

One of the basic principles behind Clayton Christensen’s famous conception of disruptive innovation is that the fundamental things people try to do in their lives actually change relatively slowly. Market disruptions typically combine a simplifying technology with a business model that runs counter to the industry norm.