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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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Developing Mindful Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Training and development programs almost universally focus factory-like on inputs and outputs — absorb curriculum, check a box; learn a skill, advance a rung; submit to assessment, fix a problem. These are skills and qualities you have to cultivate and practice.".

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What You Might Not Know About the Cuban Economy

Harvard Business Review

After 2009, the Cuban economy really didn’t recover. It could be an ideal location for healthcare organizations, but also for those in applied sciences, biotechnology, and pharmaceuticals. And secondly, the business model for Cuban biotechnology has been laughably bad. We know two things about biotech in Cuba.