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Would You Rather be Revolutionary or Evolutionary?

Harvard Business Review

Suppose you were alive in 1884 and were approached by an aspiring entrepreneur who had developed the most efficient and durable horse carriage ever created. entrepreneurs. While inventors are more idea-oriented and entrepreneurs are more action-oriented, they both share an approach to problem solving that is non-linear.

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India's Decade of Collaboration

Harvard Business Review

Inventors are engineers, scientists, or entrepreneurs who come up with an original idea. The vision and purpose of Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw , chairman and managing director of Biocon, is to deliver affordable drugs to the masses in both India and other markets. Transformers.

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