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Innovation Thrives Despite Piracy

The Horizons Tracker

When Napster was released in 1999 pretty much all the way through until its demise in 2002, considerable unrest swirled around the platform. After all, when people could get your core offering for free, not only would that harm your income but it would discourage the industry from producing content and stifle innovation.

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Why Adding More Products Isn’t Always the Best Way to Grow

Harvard Business Review

Even when companies do want to expand their product offerings, internal preparation and sequencing can matter more than the innovation itself. The company had been a star of the dot-com boom, eventually selling to eBay in 2002 for $1.5 Each was set loose to develop or acquire products to satisfy those markets.

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Building a Culture of Transparency in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

I believe it is impossible to have complete transparency with patients without first developing a strong culture of internal transparency — among all team members, at all levels, on all issues — throughout the health care organization itself. Leaders must lead by example. ” A new paradigm.

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Bringing Global Philanthropy Closer to Home

Harvard Business Review

Saraki''s approach is emblematic of a growing trend of impact-focused investors that are emerging from developing countries, where economic growth is on the rise. Between 2002-2013, emerging market and developing economies averaged a 6.5% growth in GDP. But the growth — while rapid — has not been broad-based.

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Four Innovation Trends to Watch in 2013

Harvard Business Review

Digital media continue to be springboards for global innovation and enterprise. So here are four innovation ideas — themes, really — sure to gain significantly greater mind- and market-share over the coming year. What policies and programs is your organization developing around badges? innovative alternatives.

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 2 of 4

Strategy Driven

Business development. K-Mart closed 617 of its under-performing department stores and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2002. Thus, efforts to treat a fraction of one percent took resources away from addressing the other 99.999% of companies’ full-scope planning, training and marketplace development.

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China Can’t Be a Global Innovation Leader Unless It Does These Three Things

Harvard Business Review

When the Chinese Communist Party’s central committee wraps up the Third Plenum on November 12, 2014, a shift from efficiency to innovation will likely be one of the major planks in its vision for China. Some argue that China is already well on its way to becoming a global innovation power that will rival the US and Europe.