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First Look: Leadership Books for August 2023

Leading Blog

He’s achieved extraordinary success and emerged as one of the greatest marketing minds of our time by doing things differently. But there is a method to his maverick style.

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How Corporate Venturing Can Help Startups Overcome The Valley Of Death

The Horizons Tracker

Each year INSEAD produce a global innovation index, which chronicles the abilities of various countries around the world to support the creation of innovation. New research from IESE makes the case for corporate venturing to help rectify the situation and bring more academic excellence to market. Crossing the valley.

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The Ghost Workers Powering The AI Economy

The Horizons Tracker

The historic English country house is the home not only of the Ashridge Business School, but of the Hult Prize Accelerator, which attracts startups from around the world to compete for $1 million funding to take their idea to market. Ethical data. ” Sourcing the right way.

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Startup Accelerators Have Become More Popular in Emerging Markets — and They’re Working

Harvard Business Review

For decades, we have heard that emerging markets are poised for huge growth that will yield even greater prosperity. Much like their famed Silicon Valley counterparts, emerging market accelerators aim to boost startups’ potential for raising growth capital.

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What Tomorrow's Leaders Are Learning in Africa Right Now

Harvard Business Review

While it may not be intuitive to global readers, I see many similarities between Samsung's transformation from local leader in Korea to major player on the world stage and our own journey in building the United Bank for Africa into a group that operates in 20 countries and on three continents.

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What Zipcar Can Teach the S&P 500

Harvard Business Review

The company came from nowhere into a rental car business dominated by giants such as Hertz and Avis, creating a new market of by-the-hour rentals. They want data, even though data on non-existent markets is inherently fictional. Start-ups create new markets, or they struggle for oxygen.

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People Are the New Channel

Harvard Business Review

For marketers, this of course changes everything. As part of an awards program that one of us (Cara) created and the other (Mark) helped judge, we had the opportunity to see how hundreds of top marketers in Silicon Valley are engaging customers and growing revenue in this new era. 2) Don''t push products, solve problems.