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

Harvard Business Review

The bad news is that the job market is really tight, and it’s preventing us from hiring the conceptual designers we need.” 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. What went wrong?

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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. At some point in the future, however, as it moves more assuredly onto the global stage, China will need both a new generation of dreamers and new dreams, especially in business.