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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

This fictionalized case study will appear in a forthcoming issue of Harvard Business Review, along with commentary from experts and readers. They’d bonded over their Miami roots and their desire to make a difference in the world, and soon they began developing Helena’s idea into a fully fledged organization.

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Social Media Influence | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Validating proof of concept around social media ROI is a discussion that may have had a bit of relevance 24 months ago, but unless you’ve been stranded on a desert island for the last couple of years you know that numerous case studies abound which validate social media beyond any reasonable doubt. What more proof does one need?

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7 Factors of Great Office Design

Harvard Business Review

To get everyone speaking the same spatial language, we created a Collaboration and Quiet index consisting of seven attributes that can more concretely enable people to match a desired way of working with a physical space: location, enclosure, exposure, technology, temporality, perspective, and size.

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Solving Facebook's Customer Advocacy Challenge, and Yours

Harvard Business Review

Thus, at this point, it is unable to develop and innovate the sort of software that could realize the full potential for customer advocacy and engagement on its platform. For the most part, they haven't yet developed the skills necessary to build such genuine engagement. Here are some of the possibilities for Facebook advocacy apps.

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How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Harvard Business Review

This is apparent in India, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is using a collaborative approach to build a national digital highway , partnering with the country’s world-class technology companies in the process. Develop portfolios of financing to offset risk and achieve greater scale.

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The $300 House: A Hands-On Approach to a Wicked Problem

Harvard Business Review

Bhalla used the case study of the chulha stove, co-created by businesses, NGOs, and slum dwellers, to make his point. Much of the economy consists of hardware shops, carpenters, plumbers, concrete makers, masons, even real-estate agents. The $300 House project is a housing ecosystem project.

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India’s Botched War on Cash

Harvard Business Review

Supply chain transactions, real estate deals, and even weddings and funerals have been frozen. Indeed, since the chaos erupted, the prime minister has tweeted : “Time has come for everyone, particularly my young friends, to embrace e-banking, mobile banking & more such technology.” million hours and $0.5