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Is Becoming Self-Employed All It’s Cracked Up To Be?

The Horizons Tracker

The research examined data from the National Science Foundation on over 28,000 scientists and engineers to assess any changes in their employment status and their work outcomes between 2003 and 2010. These people were also more likely to start a business in their area of expertise too.

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If You Want Innovation, You Have to Invest in People

Harvard Business Review

As the convergence of digital technologies drives unprecedented levels of change in global marketplaces, it is very much a reality that a company must, as Bill Gates put it, “innovate or die!” In the race for relevance to future customers, the greater a company’s innovation capacity, the greater its chance of success.

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Why the World Needs Tri-Sector Leaders

Harvard Business Review

Since joining Coca-Cola in 2003, Seabright has helped facilitate hundreds of community water projects across the world. A set of relationships across sectors to draw on when advancing their careers, building top teams, or convening decision-makers on a particular issue. Integrated networks. Prepared mind. Intellectual thread.

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How the Next Generation Is Approaching Society’s Biggest Problems

Harvard Business Review

First, private citizens, particularly younger people, are choosing different types of career paths. Finally, innovation in the financial markets are funding novel approaches to address these problems. Kahn, 38 years old, graduated from MIT in 1998 and Harvard Business School in 2003. Social enterprise Venture capital'

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Followership : Blog | Executive Coaching | CO2 Partners

CO2

In addition, because of the successive generations entering the workforce, rising education levels, globalization, the flattening of organizations, and an increased willingness to change careers and companies, employees have come to understand they can add more value doing meaningful work.

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What Watching Too Much Star Trek Gets You

Harvard Business Review

August 2002: HBR's special innovation issue hits the street, and my contrarian article about the fickle nature of corporate innovation sits sandwiched between stories by the likes of Peter Drucker, Henry Chesbrough, John Seely Brown, and Richard Florida. Breaking Out of the Innovation Box" was not the title I had wanted, but it worked.