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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

In 2014, when the company’s market capitalization was $380 billion, this Microsoft veteran took over as CEO. Of course, part of that entailed reestablishing the company’s reputation for cutting-edge technology. You do that by setting up structures that notice, encourage, and develop innovative ideas and practices.

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Taking a Look at the Future of Oil and Gas Industry

Strategy Driven

Renewable technology is gaining ground left and right. Sustainable technology is getting cheaper as time rolls by. Developing economies are yet to reach their full appetite for fossil fuels. What is more, the adoption of new technologies will facilitate oil and gas operations. The Green Revolution. The Bleeding Edge.

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New Year Entertainment: Predictions, Forecasts, and Projections

The Practical Leader

Technology is a major driving of change and is changing very unpredictably as we see in these forecasts: Lee DeForest, the “father of radio,” said in 1926 “While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially it is an impossibility.”

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Is Entrepreneurship As Popular As We Think?

The Horizons Tracker

Entrepreneurship has seldom been sexier, with the press overwhelmed with stories of technological disruption and the tremendous changes emerging across society as a result of the bold and courageous innovators that are bucking the norm. This is a problem across the developed world, and is far from confined to the United States.

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Why the Rest of the World Can’t Free Ride on Europe’s GDPR Rules

Harvard Business Review

competitiveness and its position in technology development will likely be central to the lobbying that will surround any efforts to change laws or boost federal regulations. Both consumers and companies will likely have to manage different rules for different markets, and different technologies. In the U.S.,

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How One Startup Developed a Sales Model That Works in Emerging Markets

Harvard Business Review

Launch day was a wild success. In 2014 we partnered with Greenlight Planet to take a spin at door-to-door stove selling. Where a solar light can simply be turned on to show its value, a stove demo requires 30 minutes of time and extensive training about the technology. Photograph courtesy of BioLite.

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Whole Foods’ Misguided Play for Millennials

Harvard Business Review

According to Whole Foods co-CEO Walter Robb, these future stores will feature “modern, streamlined design, innovative technology, and a curated selection” of lower-priced organic and natural foods. But with $10 billion in 2014 sales and an annual growth rate of 14% over the last five years, the grocery delivery market is booming.

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