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Indian Tales of Inclusive Business Models

Harvard Business Review

He has challenged Indian companies to come up with inclusive business models that deliver more value at less cost for more citizens — be it in agriculture, healthcare, education, energy, or financial services. Today, however, that old model is being retired.

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Rajesh Setty

Through the spring of 2010, we released four volumes of EJ books and continued to experiment with the roundtables, which became increasingly popular. Meanwhile, in January 2010 my New Year’s resolution was published. By April 2010, the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) global initiative had been formally named.

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Why Today’s Corporate Research Centers Need to Be in Cities

Harvard Business Review

The business model of these firms was to make markets , and they were large enough essentially to monopolize the technology categories if successful. Consider the iPad, first released in March 2010; at the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show, close to a dozen tablets were on display.

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Should Big Companies Give Up on Innovation?

Harvard Business Review

For example, a few years ago we helped Medtronic formulate and deploy a business model to bring pacemakers to patients in India who historically either didn’t know they needed the device or couldn’t afford its $1,000 price tag (since most Indians pay for health care directly).

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All Hail the Failure Sector

Harvard Business Review

FailCon 2010 took place on October 25th in San Francisco. Kendall Square and Silicon Valley are the best known, but hardly the only, places where we see rich interactions among serial entrepreneurs, VCs, law firms specializing in ventures, university technology transfer offices, and providers of physical incubator space.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010. As a result, top founders prefer independent, noncorporate accelerators, and, to date, no corporate accelerator has truly accomplished incubating world-class startups.