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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

14th Administrator, United States Agency for International Development. Forbes – #1 Leader in Retail. Rod MacKenzie – Executive Vice President, Chief Development Officer for Pfizer, member of Pfizer’s Executive Leadership Team. 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 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. Siemens, Philips, and General Electric have developed radically simplified medical devices in Asia, conceived for those markets.

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

Harvard Business Review

To deal with this problem, over the course of thirty-five years of working with and doing research in corporations around the world, I have developed a simple, practical framework that recognizes all three competing challenges managers face when leading innovation. Vijay Govindarajan. You need to develop a process for hedging risk.

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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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