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The Future of Cities Depends on Innovative Financing

Harvard Business Review

In a perfect world, governments would have the cash and the consensus to fund and coordinate the construction of the infrastructure required to sustainably accommodate a rapidly urbanizing world. The vibrant, sustainable cities of the future will be funded and delivered by creative financing arrangements that encourage collaboration.

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Too Many Infrastructure Projects Go It Alone

Harvard Business Review

The Open Automotive Alliance started in January 2014 with Google and General Motors as founding members; other technology companies and auto competitors soon joined. The goal is create a common platform, “an open ecosystem for the open road,” the alliance website proclaims. With a similar goal, the U.S.

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The Top 20 Start-Up Accelerators in the U.S.

Harvard Business Review

To construct these rankings, we collect detailed, confidential data directly from accelerator programs. Finally, besides the emergence of many new programs, 2014 also saw the demise of many existing programs, some top-rated in the past. Entrepreneurial finance Entrepreneurial management' billion, though only 3.5%

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What Is Management Research Actually Good For?

Harvard Business Review

Construction began in 1884 and by some accounts continued around the clock until her death in 1922. ” — the questions we would ask about other kinds of constructions. There is reason to worry that the reward system in our field, particularly in the publication process, is misaligned with the goals of good science.

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To Innovate, Think Like a 19th-Century Barn Raiser

Harvard Business Review

At 7 AM on May 13, 2014, a group of Amish community members gathered on a construction site in rural Ohio. Their goal was to erect a massive, multi-structure barn for a neighbor. By 5 PM that afternoon, a mere 10 hours later, the completed barn stood atop its foundation. farming communities, accomplishes several things.

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Where There’s a Why, There’s a Way

Harvard Business Review

They are called by a problem, and the self is constructed gradually by their calling.”. Trish Costello, founder of Portfolia, knows her “why”: assist starts-up in growth and financing. However, the investment of time needed to keep pursuing this dream might just thwart my conference-organizing goal.