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Maybe You’re an Entrepreneur After All

Lead Change Blog

As much as they want to take the leap on the inside, many leaders resist because their definition of entrepreneur is just too narrow. Cooking might not be your thing, but maybe you’re incredible at leading strategic meetings, designing marketing plans, building teams, or keeping finances well above board.

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Featured Rascal: Mother Teresa

Chris Brady

        It was a courageous and wild decision, one that would throwher into hunger and doubt. Dennis Posted by: Dennis Perry | June 27, 2010 at 12:23 AM Definitely a title she had never received until now.   She hadabsolutely no income and had to resort to begging for supplies and food.

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Crowdfunding’s Big-Bang Moment

Harvard Business Review

But those impressive numbers may be eclipsed by a revolution in venture financing that is only being held back by final government approval: start-ups raising actual investment funds from individuals in exchange for equity or a share of profits. How big a deal is this “democratization” of finance? Last week, the U.S.

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Strategy Lessons From Jean Tirole

Harvard Business Review

But the significance of the paper seems less in that offers any definitive answers to how to think about the phenomenon than that it kicked off what is a now a rich (if still not exactly conclusive) literature on what are now also called multi-sided platforms. Corporate finance? That appeared out of nowhere,” says Gans. Since when?

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Ratings Agencies Are the Darnedest Things

Harvard Business Review

And since conventional wisdom in investing by definition almost always ends up being wrong, the agencies have a long history of not just shutting the barn door after the horse has bolted, but shutting it after an entire herd of horses has bolted, eaten all the grass in three counties, and jumped in your swimming pool.

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Creating a Future for (American) Cleantech

Harvard Business Review

Demand response, grid management, solar financing and installation, and electric vehicle infrastructure companies might fit this bill. A focused effort to set national guidelines for taxation, grants, definitions, and so on would provide a more stable foundation for American innovators.

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. Every bubble by definition deflates. It was the form in which the asset was financed. You can spot a bubble.