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A Story on Importance of Processes: From Subroto Bagchi

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This book journals growth of MindTree from idea to IPO. Process Improvement , Quality | Tanmay February 15, 2010 3 Comments By L M Foong pr , March 30, 2010 @ 2:28 pm I faced with similar situation when I tried to emphasise on process approach to certain category of employees who claimed they do not need a process to perform their duties.

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How Google Has Changed Management, 10 Years After its IPO

Harvard Business Review

But back in 2010, Chris Trimble criticized 20% time both for being expensive and for emphasizing ideas over execution. Bala Iyer and Tom Davenport attempted to “reverse engineer” Google’s innovation machine in 2008. He suggested letting the data decide, an approach Google could no doubt get on board with.

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A simple cure for the Buzzword Bingo | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

About Portfolio Resources eBuzz Blog Home Blog Main Page A simple cure for the Buzzword Bingo RSS Feed A simple cure for the Buzzword Bingo By Rajesh Setty on Thu 04 Dec 2008, 8:02 PM - View Comments More often than not people use buzzwords without fully understanding what they actually mean.

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A Quiet Revolution in Clean-Energy Finance

Harvard Business Review

Between 2006 and 2008, more than $1 billion venture-capital dollars were channeled into startups focused on solar, wind and biofuel technologies. A star example is Google, which raised a mere $40 million in private funding before its IPO at a $23 billion valuation.

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Just How Risky Is Entrepreneurship, Really?

Harvard Business Review

Few law students even get the chance to buy the losing lottery ticket: the government estimates that 215,417 jobs for attorneys will open between 2008 and 2018 and in the same decade , there will be over 430,000 new legal graduates so only half will get to practice in their chosen field (at substantial opportunity and tuition costs).

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Don’t Build Your Startup Outside of Silicon Valley

Harvard Business Review

For founders thinking about launching companies outside of New York, Massachusetts, or California, that means your odds of pre-IPO success are automatically lower before you’ve even started. But the simple truth is that by every metric surrounding follow-on funding, acquisition, or IPO, the superhubs still have a distinct edge.

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How Chinese Companies Can Develop Global Brands

Harvard Business Review

Also, while China’s outward-bound foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown from an annual average of below $3 billion before 2005 to more than $60 billion in 2010 and 2011, only one third of Chinese companies have seen international revenue meet expectations, according to Accenture. Redesign the organization.

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