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Understand Your Entrepreneurial Superpower

Skip Prichard

The author of ten books, five of his works have been optioned for films. The city was buzzing with excitement, with startups popping up everywhere, and events and pitch nights hosted by new incubators hoping to attract investors. That’s why accelerators and incubators and tech ecosystems are so vital to this iterative process.

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What Inclusive Urban Development Can Look Like

Harvard Business Review

One of us is an urban theorist, the other a community-focused real estate developer. Developers have two primary ways to help create new and better jobs. The second is to develop spaces and programs to incubate entrepreneurs. They are certainly important components, but they are not enough. We think cities can do better.

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How to Hand Off an Innovation Project from One Team to Another

Harvard Business Review

Truth is, you can have the right portfolio of investments, the right metrics and governance, the right stage-gate development process, and the right talent on the right teams — but if you don’t design the right handoffs between your teams, all of that planning falls apart. But a sickening number of those investments fail.

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Procrastination Is Essential to Innovation

Harvard Business Review

While it's written from my perspective, he was central to the development of the idea. I've never published a book before, but I have incubated businesses. This post was co-authored with Bob Moesta , Managing Partner of The Re-Wired Group in Detroit. How's your book launch coming?" Bob asked me. I don't want to talk about my book.

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How Managers Can Avoid Playing Favorites

Harvard Business Review

“You’re not giving others the opportunity to grow and develop strength and breadth.” Playing favorites also dents your own professional development. Maybe you’re both fans of the same hockey team or you both like foreign films. Including Natalie in the pitch gave her an opportunity to grow and develop.

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What Happened When Linkin Park Asked Harvard for Help with Its Business Model

Harvard Business Review

Jessica Sklar, then the band’s intern and now Machine Shop’s Chief Strategy Officer, evolved the online discussions into in-person meet-ups and events at concerts, developing what came to be known as the “Linkin Park Underground.” of course). and Harajuku Lovers.

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What Tech Companies Can Do to Become a Force for Inclusion

Harvard Business Review

LaunchCode has worked with 5,000 students in recent years, and placed 1,000 of them into tech-sector apprenticeships or as direct hires earning more than $50,000 a year as front-end, back-end, full-stack, or mobile developers. Of those hires, 50% were previously unemployed and 37% are people of color.