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Five Power Skills for Discovering Radical Ideas

Harvard Business Review

When we surveyed over 300 global executives between 2008 and 2009, one of the primary concerns they expressed was their inability to compete long term without a solid innovation engine that can grow their top line. With this in mind, we started to document and study the best-in-class skills of our client companies and their intrapreneurs.

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What You Might Not Know About the Cuban Economy

Harvard Business Review

There was a spike in the 2000s when Venezuela began to provide petroleum at deeply discounted market prices, and that peaked just before the 2008-09 financial crisis. After 2009, the Cuban economy really didn’t recover. And secondly, the business model for Cuban biotechnology has been laughably bad.