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Entrepreneurship Skills Can Last A Lifetime

The Horizons Tracker

In a similar vein is the Global Grad Show, which originates out of Dubai and which recently celebrated its sixth edition. “I think that the entire education ecosystem is facing a huge transformation as to the skills needed to be a valuable professional,” Tadeu Baldani Caravieri, Director of Global Grad Show, told me recently.

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Why the Best Strategies Blend the Digital and Physical

Skip Prichard

According to Stanford Graduate School of Business Lecturer and venture capitalist Robert Siegel , this is false – nothing in life or business is ever that simple. It is this sort of operational excellence that needs to work hand-in-hand with a strong digital front-end to deliver great products and services. Rob Siegel.

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The One Thing VCs Could Do Immediately to Increase Returns

Harvard Business Review

And, an inventor who could reduce global dependency on oil by designing better batteries? By venture capitalists’ individual actions, they are limiting growth and innovation. Challenging the venture community may seem like an attack, but actually this is a call from the future. Diversity Gender Venture capital'

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How Merck Is Trying to Keep Disrupters at Bay

Harvard Business Review

Within EB, Merck first created a Global Health Innovation Fund and then a Healthcare Services and Solution unit to identify, develop, and operate nascent opportunities that fit that thesis. But, because of EB’s diverse set of employees, it’s able to stimulate ideas from other industries and counter “paradigm bigots.”

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Old Management Systems Stifle New Business Models

Harvard Business Review

Instead, they’re taught to focus on their income statement and optimize their operations around preserving profitability. On a short-term basis, the only thing they can expect in return for focusing on data is the headaches that follow from explaining, justifying, and evaluating their operations to colleagues and investors.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

Your network’s strategic advantage and, therefore, the extent to which it helps you step up to leadership, depends on three qualities: Breadth: Strong relationships with a diverse range of contacts. Breadth: How Diverse Is Your Network? For example, recently we were in a meeting discussing the results of a global people survey.

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Ten Ways to Diversify an Inbred Network

Harvard Business Review

But too many executives have networks that, while they may be large, don't have enough diversity to be effective. It also tends to be internal, operational (not strategic), and historical, an artifact of the executive's past work history and not his or her future possibilities. Get in touch with a venture capitalist.