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Innovation's Nine Critical Success Factors

Harvard Business Review

Incremental innovation can be pushed down into the organization where the strategy is clear, decision metrics are understood, and management models like Stage-Gate create a level playing field. So Stage-Gate models can unintentionally kill potentially big ideas. However, for game-changing innovation it's the opposite.

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What Big Companies Get Wrong About Innovation Metrics

Harvard Business Review

Companies as diverse as AIG, Disney, and Intuit have been building innovation teams, launching “accelerator” programs to attract promising startups, and giving employees seed funding to test out new ideas with real customers. Stage-gate specific metrics, i.e. projects moving from one. stage to the next.

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Luring More MBAs to the Social Sector

Harvard Business Review

That was the answer from a recent Harvard Business School MBA graduate when asked why he decided to participate in the School's Leadership Fellows program — a one-year management fellowship in nonprofit and public-sector organizations. So what does it take to attract these students to pursue careers with a focus on social impact?

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Putting an End to Conferences Dominated by White Men

Harvard Business Review

Many business conferences are notable not only for the prominent people on stage, but also for those who are missing. Women’s under-representation at such events gets a lot of attention, but people of color are also relatively rare on conference stages. At Davos this year, just 15% of the participants are women.

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44 Content Marketing Agencies Defined by 65 Marketers

Miles Anthony Smith

One myth for me is that creating unique content for a matrix of each stage of the buying journey for each distinct customer segment is simply not sustainable for most companies. If you want your B2B content to be great, invite your community to participate. Not every company should be focusing on a blog right out of the gate.

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