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China Needs a New Generation of Dreamers (and New Dreams)

Harvard Business Review

The same could well be said of Bill Gates, who has left mere connectivity behind in his quest to eradicate major human diseases. Searching for new ideas at Haier involves a competitive screening of business model proposals, open to all, out of which projects and project leaders are chosen. billion business after two years.

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Good News, Bad News: An HBR Management Puzzle on Innovation Execution

Harvard Business Review

An independent steering committee’s first “gate” review of the project, at the end of the conceptual-design stage, had been scheduled for Week 15; she postpones it to Week 33. The only bad news is that the steering committee turned down my request of €2 million in additional funds for the 2013 budget. What went wrong?