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Transforming Rural India Through Agricultural Innovation

Harvard Business Review

NAF has also established a Research and Development Center in Chennai housing a comprehensive soil testing laboratory, food safety and standards laboratory and a plant tissue culture lab to provide agriculture support services. This may be considered an attitudinal breakthrough. Over 50,000 people have benefited in the past decade.

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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

The result is a lot of innovation programs that can build fantastic concept cars, but have a tough time getting production vehicles onto the road. What would new product development executives or project managers in the R&D lab tell you are the organizational dynamics that ice their best ideas? Start with a survey.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

By managing the three key properties of networks that either propel you forward or hold you back—breadth, connectivity, and dynamism—you can develop a stronger network and use it as an essential leadership tool. Jones, and Brian Uzzi, “The Increasing Dominance of Teams in Production of Knowledge,” Science 316, no.

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