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Innovation High-Five

Mills Scofield

During 2012, creating a process for internal innovation moved to our priority list. Early in 2012, the team created ideas to impact each of these areas and voted on innovation as the common denominator. From social media tools to business process gamification to digital wallets, we received over a dozen great ideas.

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Creating Social Change with Social Media

Harvard Business Review

People all over the country came together to answer that question with a resounding "yes," and social media certainly helped us get there. The campaign was endorsed by The White House and Bill Gates, generated more than 800 media features and mentions in outlets like CNN, Washington Post , and CBS News, and our hash tag trended No.

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Creating Social Change with Social Media

Harvard Business Review

People all over the country came together to answer that question with a resounding "yes," and social media certainly helped us get there. The campaign was endorsed by The White House and Bill Gates, generated more than 800 media features and mentions in outlets like CNN, Washington Post , and CBS News, and our hash tag trended No.

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Why Are Immigrants More Entrepreneurial?

Harvard Business Review

Huffington grew up in Athens and studied in London before starting her career as a politician and media entrepreneur. between 2006 and 2012 had at least one immigrant cofounder. It suggests that public money may be better spent on building incubators for migrant entrepreneurs than on building border walls. as young adult.

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

Harvard Business Review

In 2012, one of us — Gregor Gimmy, a California-based serial entrepreneur and former IDEO consultant — accepted a new role at BMW’s corporate R&D headquarters. From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1

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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business Review

Located in the heart of Colombia’s coffee region, in 2012 Manizales was a good place to grow up and get an education, and an even better place to retire, safe and surrounded by beautiful scenery. However, during their prime working years, most Manizalenos would move to Bogota (7 million people) or Medellin (2.5

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How to Fund Indian Start-Ups

Harvard Business Review

I haven’t dug up the 2012 numbers. This is not what the media makes it out to be.”. More recently, there is an over active incubator network that has taken hold. The Indian government is offering money for people to set up incubators, which has led to a lot of clueless people setting up incubators.