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N2Growth Helps Businesses Combine Strategy & Innovation for a Consumer-First Approach to Digital Transformation

N2Growth Blog

That transformation requires adopting new digital technologies in every aspect of business — from product design and operations to customer service and marketing. Jean-Louis later managed the business intelligence group for IRI, analyzing product performance to offer insights on pricing, advertising, and category management.

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The Problems With Incubators, and How to Solve Them

Harvard Business Review

This knowledge gap, I have come to believe, is best filled by savvy incubators. However, there are over 7,500 business incubators around the world. The first business incubator in the U.S. opened in 1959 and is still operating. In the last couple of years, we have seen a renaissance in the incubator business.

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Why Startups Need To Get The Founding Team Right

The Horizons Tracker

There’s no manager to select team members, much less to assign them the roles they’ll undertake. For instance, if you’re a technical wizard, it might be wise to consider bringing with you people with business or operational skills. Identify your weak spots – most people have particular strengths and weaknesses.

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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?

Harvard Business Review

operations. Miami’s median income was 10 times that of most of the cities where Unamano operated. How can we hit 25 developing countries by 2020 if we get distracted by operations in the U.S.? “The managing directors in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia and Brazil and Argentina and the others. It didn’t have U.S.

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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

Beyond wages, other forms of investment in human capital include education and training, improved healthcare, and other, less obvious investments, such as the time and space to explore new ideas and professional development opportunities. The most direct and obvious investment is increased wages.

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To Reform Capitalism, CEOs Should Champion Structural Reforms

Harvard Business Review

CEOs manage them, employees work for them, customers buy from them, suppliers sell to them, investors buy their shares, and governments regulate their activities. They can partner with for-benefits by incorporating them into their supply chains, or working with them to incubate new products, services, and business models.

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