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When a Product Fails, Find a New Direction

Harvard Business Review

Years of development, energy, and, of course, money have gone into it. As Lisa Burns, CEO of Burns McClellan , long-time publicist for Cephalon, told me in a recent phone interview, "All the energy that Frank had applied to Myotrophin, he turned to Provigil.". By 2010, sales exceeded $2B. What do you do next?

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India's Exploding Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

Founders Forum is a franchise started by two successful UK-based entrepreneurs, Brent Hoberman and Jonnie Goodwin, to stimulate US-style entrepreneurship in the European region, and now around the world. For this reason, one entrepreneur observed, "More companies [in India] die of indigestion than of starvation."

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To Grow, Social Enterprises Must Play by Business Rules

Harvard Business Review

Founding CEOs realize—or fail to realize—that their maniacal energy and personal devotion can only take their enterprises so far. Since it started its work in December 2010, SBT has invested in five social enterprises, which have since collectively increased their revenues by 77%. Normal business complexity sets in.

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What The Colts Can Teach Us About Team Building

Harvard Business Review

Under the leadership of their future Hall of Fame quarterback, Peyton Manning , they won the Super Bowl in 2007 and lost one in 2010. What's happening to the Colts happened to the Chicago Bulls when Michael Jordan left the franchise. For the last nine seasons, the Colts have made the Playoffs.

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Why Google Fiber Is High-Speed Internet’s Most Successful Failure

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, Google rocked the $60 billion broadband industry by announcing plans to deploy fiber-based home internet service, offering connections up to a gigabit per second — 100 times faster than average speeds at the time. PM Images/Getty Images. And deployment will likely follow the new city-by-city model pioneered by Google Fiber.