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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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How One Hospital Improved Patient Safety in 10 Minutes a Day

Harvard Business Review

Most modern health care improvements seem to involve expensive technology and an uncomfortable amount of change management. ” Each team member rates his or her own mood as green (I’m good), orange (I’m okay but I have a few things I’m concerned about) or red (I’m under stress). Kelly Sillaste/Getty Images.

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Uber’s New CEO Will Have to Win on Two Fronts Simultaneously

Harvard Business Review

market , and still has a large cash hoard for investment from its last financing round at a valuation of $68 billion, making it the highest-valued unicorn in the history of business. Organizations under stress cause people to focus more on avoiding blame than on taking risks and assuming responsibility to solve problems.

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