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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. TFA stands out as a prolific spawner of entrepreneurial leadership in education. Learn more about the Advanced Leadership Initiative.

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The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business Review

In The Good Jobs Strategy , Zeynep Ton, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management, demonstrates how the best retail companies align their customer value proposition with their operations strategy and their approach to human capital. This includes more autonomy and agility as well as inspirational leadership.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

How can these companies overcome the inevitable leadership, organizational, and cultural challenges involved? ” Jennifer Waldo , Head of Global Human Resources, GE Software Center, was at the epicenter of GE’s recruiting challenge. Second, we are incubating new software talent and [creating] software DNA.

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The Myth of the Intrapreneur

Harvard Business Review

Companies need to institutionalize innovation rather than expect it to simply flow forth from intrapreneurs operating within existing structures. To start, innovation must be recognized as a permanent function of a successful company, just like other business functions such as accounting, operations, sales, and finance.

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5 Positions Companies Need To Navigate Digital Transformation

N2Growth Blog

We currently operate in the era of ‘programmatic computing’, where data analysis involves heuristically searching for patterns in limited data sets, then performing operations on the result. From there, low hanging fruit opportunities can be incubated.