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Universities Are Missing Out on an Explosive Growth Sector: Their Own

Harvard Business Review

(See comments by Clayton Christensen and Mark Cuban ). Still, most colleges are lucky if they can afford even a small team charged with developing new lines of business and new business models. There is a precedent for endowment managers to see capital as a tool to help the university thrive — investing in local real estate.

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Africa’s Companies Need to Become More Like Training Schools

Harvard Business Review

In June 2013, some Harvard Business School classmates and I launched a social enterprise ( WAVE: West Africa Vocational Education ) targeted at the youth unemployment issue. In the hospitality sector, for example, they invest upfront into luxury real estate and equipment, but rarely into training programs.