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Understand Your Entrepreneurial Superpower

Skip Prichard

Jonathan Littman collaborated with IDEO on the bestsellers The Art of Innovation and The Ten Faces of Innovation. The author of ten books, five of his works have been optioned for films. We saw something new taking hold a few years ago – San Francisco had usurped Silicon Valley as the new center of tech innovation.

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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

That fear drives their companies to invest millions into coming up with breakthrough innovations. If innovation projects are going to succeed, they’ll need to survive a handoff from an innovation team to an execution team. One major Asian electronics company built a design lab to develop new hardware product ideas.

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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. We would examine my stalled plans in order to better understand how people make progress, and more specifically, what leads us to innovate. I've never published a book before, but I have incubated businesses. How's your book launch coming?"

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

Harvard Business Review

Here at Machine Shop , the wholly owned innovation company of the alternative rock band Linkin Park, we identified the need to think differently years ago. For more than a decade, Linkin Park and Machine Shop enjoyed success and continued to innovate. of course). We also looked beyond music for insights.

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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.