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When Success is Born Out of Serendipity

Harvard Business Review

The obvious targets were people in the field of innovation — those working in strategy, R&D, business development, and entrepreneurship. came home from her job as a diversity consultant at JP Morgan Chase. On this day, though, she had just been asked to describe the "business-case for diversity" for her firm.

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How to Finance the Scale-Up of Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Tom Szaky knows well the meaning of the saying “ Beware your dreams, for they may come true. ” With the 2004 Christmas retail season rapidly approaching, he was trying everything he could to scale up TerraCycle , a two year old venture selling liquid worm poop as fertilizer in used PET bottles. You get the point.