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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. 14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. Forbes – #1 Leader in Retail. HR and talent development roles with General Motors Australia. Former CEO, Carlson.

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The Fine Line Between When Low Prices Work and When They Don’t

Harvard Business Review

The choice of the price position affects the overall business model, the product quality, branding, and how to innovate. The German-based retail chain Aldi and the Swedish furniture company IKEA are masters at this. At the same time, Honda was developing a much simpler and extremely inexpensive model called the Wave.

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Great Innovators Create the Future, Manage the Present, and Selectively Forget the Past

Harvard Business Review

But as anyone who has ever tried to lead innovation knows, the challenge goes beyond being ambidextrous enough to manage today’s business while creating tomorrow’s. Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book. Vijay Govindarajan. Simply put, the future is shaped by what you do, and don’t do, today. Excerpted from.

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The $300 House: The Urban Challenge

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is one in an occasional series on Vijay Govindarajan's and Christian Sarkar's idea to create a scalable housing solution for the world's poor. This development plan can be scaled to build 3 million or 30 million units per year, if needed. The entire thing isn't unlike putting together giant Legos.

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