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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

Anyone who has worked inside a large organization can rattle off a lengthy list of the things that regularly kill promising ideas: conflict with existing businesses, naysayers, management turmoil, insufficient resources. Here are six ways to change that. Start with a survey. But the most common cause of death they reported?

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What if a Company Maximized Jobs Over Profits?

Harvard Business Review

All over Silicon Valley, venture capitalists are asking entrepreneurs “How scalable is your business model?” Friedman wasn’t changing how the product was made (e.g. A traditional entrepreneur wouldn’t set out to make this combination of products. What products or services can these workers best make or provide?

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Why Are Immigrants More Entrepreneurial?

Harvard Business Review

By living in different cultures, they encounter new products, services, customer preferences, and communication strategies, and this exposure may allow the transfer of knowledge about customer problems or solutions from one country to another. These interviews were coded independently by two raters.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

Make you more innovative. Jones, and Brian Uzzi, “The Increasing Dominance of Teams in Production of Knowledge,” Science 316, no. The sidebar “The Innovator’s Network Dilemma” presents convincing data that bears out this observation. It can keep you informed. Teach you new things. The list goes on.

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