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Entrepreneurship Suffers When Well-Paid Jobs Are Plentiful

The Horizons Tracker

A few years ago I wrote about innovation and entrepreneurship in Norway and Qatar. They argue that, for instance, in medicine, the doubling of medical knowledge in 1950 took 50 years, in 1980 this had shrunk to 7 years, and by 2010 it was down to just 3.5 of physicians operating as independent owners in 2019, versus 48.5%

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Management Improvement Carnival – 2013 Edition

QAspire

James is an experienced operations manager who is passionate about improving quality, reduce cost and increase efficiency of operations. Technical reviews are a chance to manage both innovation and risk, and…develop people. Related Posts: People Focus – 2010 Management Improvement Carnival.

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Are Ph.Ds Turning Their Back On Entrepreneurship?

The Horizons Tracker

They argue that, for instance, in medicine the doubling of medical knowledge in 1950 took 50 years, in 1980 this had shrunk to 7 years, and by 2010 it was down to just 3.5 of physicians operating as independent owners in 2019, versus 48.5% This underlines the decline in entrepreneurship in medicine, for instance, with just 31.4%

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Innovation Isn't Tied to Size, but to Operating Rules

Harvard Business Review

Plenty of people — including here on Harvard's blog — espouse the theory that big companies can't innovate. A look at any performance measure shows that innovation can come from either size, and that both arguments are oversimplifications. HP is #10 on the 2012 list, and IBM is number 19.

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50 Ways to Leave your Lover: Keep Failing Til the Last Thing You Try Is Successful

Mills Scofield

Special guest blog post by Don Esch, President of Bettcher Industries of his story at BW-Center For Innovation & Growth 's Innovation Summit. In meat plants, tens of thousands of operators are “whizzing” meat products everyday in over sixty countries around the world. Million; not big, but interesting.

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How Google Has Changed Management, 10 Years After its IPO

Harvard Business Review

To do so, it had to come up with a brand of management all its own, centered around “people analytics,” a quantitative approach to hiring and operations. Earlier this year, Google’s SVP of People Operations, Laszlo Bock, wrote about its latest “people analytics” experiment. How Google innovates.

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China’s Economy, in Six Charts

Harvard Business Review

Its gross domestic product has surged from less than $150 billion in 1978 to $8,227 billion in 2012 (see “China’s GDP” chart below). Foreign investors have flocked to the country’s shores as many of the world’s largest manufacturers have established operations there. percentage points in 2003-2012.

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