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A Biologist, Computer Scientist & Historian walk into a.

Mills Scofield

They expect stories of finding romance in the dining hall and losing it into the wild night. When I think about my time at Brown, I think about one of my housemates working on a computer science project, describing the mystery of the deep web and the power of torrent — and blowing my mind in the process. He was a 2013 C.V.

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A Biologist, Computer Scientist & Historian walk into a.

Mills Scofield

They expect stories of finding romance in the dining hall and losing it into the wild night. When I think about my time at Brown, I think about one of my housemates working on a computer science project, describing the mystery of the deep web and the power of torrent — and blowing my mind in the process. He was a 2013 C.V.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

I think the most important thing that I look for [when funding a project] is really, who’s that champion?” It’s a hard topic to study because of all of the intangibles that go into convincing and persuading others to bring resources to your innovation projects. What better way to signal that you have leadership capabilities?

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Google’s Strategy vs. Glass’s Potential

Harvard Business Review

But we knew that by putting prototypes into the wild, we’d start to learn how this radical new technology— something that sits on your face, so close to your senses—might be used. Others suggest that a subset of innovation projects be aimed at entirely new markets , regardless of adjacency. But ultimately Google is Google.

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Some Companies Are Banning Email and Getting More Done

Harvard Business Review

Despite his seemingly radical thinking about email, Breton isn’t exactly the model of a rogue start-up founder testing out wild new ways to work. They organized the network around 7,500 open communities representing the various projects that required collaboration. Atos’s operating margin increased from 6.5 percent to 7.5

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What Initial Coin Offerings Are, and Why VC Firms Care

Harvard Business Review

ICOs are the Wild West of financing — they sit in a grey zone where the U.S. Most made their money early on by buying or mining bitcoin when it was still under $10 (in the early days of 2011-2013). Since 2013, there’s been about $2 billion invested in blockchain and bitcoin startups from the VC community.

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Big Companies Don’t Have to Be Soulless Places to Work

Harvard Business Review

In the 2013 report of the same population, 82% of workers around the world did not trust their bosses to tell the truth. A multiyear research project by McKinsey reports the single greatest factor in determining effective strategy execution is people feeling like they are making progress in meaningful work. Boredom seems inevitable.