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Why Does Teach for America Spawn So Many Entrepreneurs?

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. Recently, TFA introduced a program to promote entrepreneurship in education called the Social Entrepreneurship Initiative.

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The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business Review

The evidence suggests the former: We could improve productivity if we stopped systematically underinvesting in human capital. Managed by Q, a cleaning and office services company in New York City, decided to pay employees higher wages than the prevailing market rate. The most direct and obvious investment is increased wages.

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A New Model for Innovation in Big Companies

Harvard Business Review

Innovation consultancies tend to have a preferred methodology for working with their clients, such as human centered design (also called ‘design thinking,’ popularized by IDEO, Continuum, Frog Design and others), Lean Start-up, or analytical models used by large management consulting firms.