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The Ghost Workers Powering The AI Economy

The Horizons Tracker

Suffice to say, the very nature of the Hult Prize means that the company are at a very nascent stage of their development, but one organization that is further along their journey are San Francisco-based social enterprise Samasource, who work with gig workers in India, Kenya and Uganda to provide ethical access to the AI marketplace.

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What Tomorrow's Leaders Are Learning in Africa Right Now

Harvard Business Review

While it may not be intuitive to global readers, I see many similarities between Samsung's transformation from local leader in Korea to major player on the world stage and our own journey in building the United Bank for Africa into a group that operates in 20 countries and on three continents. August 2011 HBR.

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How Watson Changed IBM

Harvard Business Review

Case in point, rather than keep Watson locked up in their research labs, they decided to release it to the world as a platform, to run experiments with a variety of organizations to accelerate development of natural language applications and services. So how does it work? First, with multiple business models.

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Don’t Move to Silicon Valley Without Preparation

Harvard Business Review

We hear a lot about technology and globalization these days, especially how they are hollowing out the American middle class. But there has been an immense positive impact from the globalization of entrepreneurship, making Silicon Valley’s formula of technology-based start-ups an international instrument for economic development.

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

Harvard Business Review

The prevalent model of startup cooperation in recent years has been corporate venture capital and accelerators (CVC&A). From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 A New Name and a Unique Brand Identity.

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Enabling the Natural Act of Entrepreneurship

Harvard Business Review

I met Slovenian entrepreneur, Sandi Cesko, in 2007 when his Ljubljana -based multi-channel retail operation, Studio Moderna , had about $70 million in sales. Three thousand years ago the Phoenicians in Tyre were as globally entrepreneurial as the startupists are today in nearby Tel-Aviv. Even better. have spread like wildfire.

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

What makes it useful, though, is the understanding that has developed over time as these criteria have been used to determine which ideas are truly innovative and which aren’t. Balance: the mix of different types of innova­tion (product, service, pricing, distribution, operations, etc.);