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Willy Wonka and the Leadership Idea Factory

Terry Starbucker

I write a lot on innovative thinking. Oddly enough, the movie was financed by a food company or it would possibly never have been made at all, and in a way it’s one of the more creative marketing campaigns ever seeing as I can go to any candy store and buy Wonka candy right now. It could be your best decision in a while!

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Private Equity Can Make Firms More Innovative

Harvard Business Review

And a recent working paper out of the Dusseldorf Institute for Competition Economics ( DICE ), a think tank of sorts, focuses on the latter by exploring whether leveraged buyouts (LBOs) make firms more innovative. PE investors don’t typically invest in firms known for innovation. that didn’t undergo buyouts.

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When Treating Workers Well Leads to More Innovation

Harvard Business Review

There’s a reason companies like Google and Facebook offer their employees so many perks, according to new research: firms that treat workers better are more innovative. This is not the first paper to connect the interests of workers with innovation. and abroad on innovation. It looked at U.S.

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Research: Writing a Business Plan Makes Your Startup More Likely to Succeed

Harvard Business Review

This includes everything from past entrepreneurial experience to the need for external finance and the urge to grow the business or to innovate. Better-financed startups are more likely to succeed. entrepreneurs over a six-year period (2005 to 2011). Not examining the context for planning has another side effect.

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Many CEOs Aren’t Breakthrough Innovators (and That’s OK)

Harvard Business Review

Innovation is widely regarded as important to long-term business performance. We’ve found that CEOs of big pharmaceutical companies, for example, are more likely to have a background as company lawyers, salespeople, or finance managers, than one in medicine or pharmaceutical R&D.

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What Startup Accelerators Really Do

Harvard Business Review

Startup accelerators support early-stage, growth-driven companies through education, mentorship, and financing. The accelerator experience is a process of intense, rapid, and immersive education aimed at accelerating the life cycle of young innovative companies, compressing years’ worth of learning-by-doing into just a few months.

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The Dangers of Digital Protectionism

Harvard Business Review

Although cross-border data flows grew 45x between 2005 and 2014, according to a McKinsey analysis , events since 2014 have pushed the pendulum to swing away from unconstrained data globalization. India’s finance ministry has proposed such an approach to the central bank. Philippe Intraligi/Getty Images. Data Is Deglobalizing.