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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

W E OFTEN THINK of innovation as something visionaries draw out of thin air, like manna from heaven. Here’s an innovation story that’s closer to reality: It’s a story of loss, grit, and renewal. It’s also about a never-too-late approach to innovation that enabled a floundering business to launch a second golden age.

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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. What is more, the adoption of new technologies will facilitate oil and gas operations. Technology also gives the oil and gas industry a chance to wash its face. The Green Revolution. The Bleeding Edge.

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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. Hype run wild. Are we all entrepreneurs now? in 1985 to just 5.3% A decline in disruption.

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Is Tesla Really a Disruptor? (And Why the Answer Matters)

Harvard Business Review

There’s little argument that Tesla is a wildly innovative company. Tesla clearly doesn’t qualify under the traditional definition of a disruptive innovation. For one thing, it’s not clear what disruptive technology the company is offering. car manufacturer and all but three worldwide.

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Crowdfunding’s Big-Bang Moment

Harvard Business Review

In a recent HBR article, Paul Nunes and I introduced the term Big Bang Disruption to signify innovations that, thanks to rapidly advancing technology, come out of the box both better and cheaper than alternative solutions already in the marketplace. economy by removing excessive restrictions on investment in innovative start-ups.

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What Initial Coin Offerings Are, and Why VC Firms Care

Harvard Business Review

Also known as “token sales,” this new fundraising phenomenon is being fueled by a convergence of blockchain technology, new wealth, clever entrepreneurs, and crypto-investors who are backing blockchain-fueled ideas. How technology is transforming transactions. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

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

Harvard Business Review

the approach to digital privacy has been more piecemeal: in effect, it is predicated in part on the idea that the ability of companies to collect, analyze, sell and monetize user data with minimal restrictions is the basis for an innovative digital industry; new users are drawn by free services and companies make money from the data collected.