Harvard Business Review

JULY 31, 2014

Second, changes in technology have dramatically lowered the cost of experimentation and create unprecedented transparency into problems, solutions, and results. In 2006, Khan launched Khan Academy to deliver “a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.” How did Sal Khan finance his venture?

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

And almost all of us have limits on our time and finances — due to kids, social organizations, work, and more — that make additional formal education impractical or impossible. Outside of universities, ongoing learning and skill development is essential to surviving economic and technological disruption.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

In 2006, when the company launched a new line of foundations intended to address a wider variety of skin tones, Atis saw that they still didn’t measure up. She couldn’t get the image out of her head, so she began to research the technology requirements. It lit a fire under her. Atis created a rich ecosystem around her idea.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2017

Transformational CEOs Tend to be “Insider Outsiders” The list is topped by companies headed by visionary founders with no prior experience in their industries; Jeff Bezos came from the world of finance, and Reed Hastings from software. The same was true of Adobe’s Shantanu Narayen.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. Zhou departed in 2005 and went on to found Qihoo 360 Technology, a $12 billion company that now trades on NASDAQ. At the end of 2006, eBay pulled out of the market.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

As a result, tech-sector employment has declined as a percent of the workforce, from 11% in 2006–2008 to 9% in 2013. In the 1990s it subsidized venture capital, incubators, university R&D, and technology transfer programs. In 2014, for example, 18 IPOs raised a record-breaking $9.8 But is all of that changing?

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