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What Makes New Orleans a Startup City to Rival the “Big Three”

Harvard Business Review

based companies that they finance,” according to a paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Considerable ink and air time have been devoted to analyses attempting to pinpoint the driving force behind the positive momentum, with the conclusions falling predictably into one of two categories: resilience or reform.

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Stop Saying Big Companies Can’t Innovate

Harvard Business Review

In fact, a lot of big companies have proven they are better positioned than emergent firms to create and execute innovation, however on-fire a startup may be. Pure Internet-plays Betterment and FutureAdvisor launched in 2010 and Wealthfront in 2011. They say, “You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.”

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Diverse Teams Feel Less Comfortable — and That’s Why They Perform Better

Harvard Business Review

In a 2011 study management teams exhibiting a wider range of educational and work backgrounds produced more-innovative products. There’s another bias at play here, too: A 2015 paper in Organization Science, summarized in this HBR article , suggests that people overestimate the amount of conflict that actually exists on diverse teams.