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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

Gimmy’s insight was that the key to overcoming these challenges and to improving corporate co-innovation is not for companies to compete more effectively with private venture capitalists or accelerators, but to focus on what they can offer to top startups that others cannot.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

When it comes to stepping up to leadership, your network is a tool for identifying new strategic opportunities and attracting the best people to them. And in a connected world, build­ing stronger external networks to tap into the best sources of insight into environmental trends is also part and parcel of the leadership role.

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Ten Ways to Diversify an Inbred Network

Harvard Business Review

Attend a conference you have never before attended. Learn more about how he or she uses social media. Get in touch with a venture capitalist. Find out how he or she thinks about leadership and innovation. Find out how he or she thinks about leadership and innovation. Meet at least three new people.

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What If.?

Mills Scofield

Conference in February, 2012 was a half day event in which questions such as “What If There Were Carfree Cities?,” ” were asked, discussed in small groups, digested over a large meal together, and then given life well beyond the close of the Conference. Our second conference this past March was a two day event.