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Why Your Employees Should Be Playing With Lego Robots

Harvard Business Review

Ericsson used Lego Mindstorm robots in a demonstration at the 2012 Mobile World Congress to bring to life its vision of how connected machines might change the way we live. Papert’s work has had a major impact on how people develop knowledge, and is especially relevant for building twenty-first century skills.

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Don't Abandon Crowdfunding -- Manage It

Harvard Business Review

Furthermore, I understand all too keenly the complexities of determining a fair valuation for companies that are too early in their development to fit existing measurement standards and can't meet the criteria for standard bank or SBA funding. The April 2012 report estimates that 452 crowdfunding platforms (CFPs) raised nearly $1.5

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Many Companies Still Don’t Know How to Compete in the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

Every industry, no matter how traditional — agriculture, automotive, aviation, energy — is being upended by the addition of sensors, internet connectivity, and software. Kodak accepted the pain of shuttering plants and laying off tens of thousands of film-factory workers. A misunderstood story. By 2005, Kodak ranked No.

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The Big Picture of Business – The Realities of Branding… Slogans that Mislead

Strategy Driven

Business development. They take what is said at face value because they have not or don’t care to develop abilities to discern what is hyped by others. ’ What they’re really selling: Computer software. Computer software is merely one tool out of many. ‘Develop the Drive to Accomplish Anything.’

Brand 50
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What We Know, Now, About the Internet’s Disruptive Power

Harvard Business Review

As the dot-com bubble heated up in the early 1990s, a number of thinkers turned their attention to developing frameworks to help executives answer those questions in HBR, and their work forms a solid foundation for navigating the digital transformation that’s still playing out.

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Crowdfunding’s Big-Bang Moment

Harvard Business Review

In a 600-page proposed rulemaking , the SEC moved to implement key provisions of the 2012 Jumpstart our Business Startups Act (or JOBS Act). Kickstarter funds everything from art to food to fashion, films, and hardware. Securities and Exchange Commission took a major step toward allowing crowdfunded equity financing.