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Why Are Immigrants More Entrepreneurial?

Harvard Business Review

Cross-cultural experiences may also stimulate creativity. In multinational businesses, human resource management tools such as expatriate assignments or international job rotations can help build opportunity recognition skills. This principle is illustrated by the origin story of Red Bull.

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The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business Review

Both Kaizen events and Agile sprints are investments in innovation and human capital productivity. Many tech companies have experimented with giving employees unstructured time to explore new ideas such as LinkedIn’s InCubator, Apple’s Blue Sky and Microsoft’s Garage.

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A New Model for Innovation in Big Companies

Harvard Business Review

Increasing creativity and innovation is not only on the priority list for start-ups; it’s also a strategic goal for CEOs of small, medium, and large-sized companies. In essence, OneLeap runs something like an accelerated competition and incubator inside the company. It seems we’re all racing to get more entrepreneurial.

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The Myth of the Intrapreneur

Harvard Business Review

These products are all held up as legendary examples of the power of intrapreneurship — entrepreneurial creativity and innovation within large, established organizations. It’s been promoted to workers as a way to capture the creativity and excitement of entrepreneurship, but with more resources and less risk.