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Entrepreneurs Take On Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

Examples of this trend include the Pebble , a Kickstarter-funded project that has now sold over one million smart watches (and which predated Google’s Android Wear smart watch and the Apple Watch). By contrast, the emergence of new cloud-enabled, incubator-supported manufacturing startups could widen the aperture.

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Creating Social Change with Social Media

Harvard Business Review

For 2013 — mark your diary for December 3rd — we've set a goal of 5,000 partners including some of the nation's top corporate names and leading funders. This is perhaps the most challenging (and exciting) element of a project like #GivingTuesday. Think tools, not rules.

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Engaging Medical Specialists in Improving Health Care Value

Harvard Business Review

The table below shows examples of some of the specialty-specific metrics the DPIs helped devise, and cases where DPIs received $5,000 grants from the medical management team to support their process improvement projects. Grant Project. Specialty-Specific Performance Metrics. Department. Example Metric. Anesthesia. Medicine/Cardiology.

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Scaling Up is a Problem of Both More and Less

Harvard Business Review

As an organization or project grows, and as its challenges change, it not only needs to recognize new priorities, it needs to delete or deemphasize old ones. Sales doubled in 2013. Until 2013, the rocks were reevaluated every 90 days. The average order size is 1,500 pounds.

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0511 | Larry Downes: Full Transcript

LDRLB

Actually, this project started probably three or four years ago when Paul’s last book came out, which is called Jumping the S-Curve. If it was, maybe you bring them into your incubator, work with them more directly, see if you can turn that into a product or service idea. What did they come up with? Was it something interesting?

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Creating Social Change with Social Media

Harvard Business Review

For 2013 — mark your diary for December 3rd — we've set a goal of 5,000 partners including some of the nation's top corporate names and leading funders. This is perhaps the most challenging (and exciting) element of a project like #GivingTuesday. Think tools, not rules.

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The Reality of What Makes Silicon Valley Tick

Harvard Business Review

They are taken to school on how to create innovation clusters in their geographies, and too often they come away with surface-level solutions: bring in venture capitalists, create incubators, provide incentives for universities and labs to commercialize their technologies, build a robust IP system, establish liaison offices in Silicon Valley.