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The Promise of a Truly Entrepreneurial Society

Harvard Business Review

Over the major innovation cycles, the capitalist system has been resilient enough to absorb the effects of the crashes caused by pure speculation and turn them to its advantage. Some prominent economists predict a new period of secular stagnation as the last great phase of innovation-fueled growth (as they see it) dries up.

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Smart Business is Business Redefined

Leading Blog

In 2015, she prepared to sell a batch of 15 new clothing items at 3:00 p.m. Organizations in the Creativity Age will focus on creativity and innovation. “An An organization’s goal is to improve the efficiency of innovation founded on human insight and creativity.” What Does this Mean for Organizations?

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The Mistakes PE Firms Make When They Pick CEOs for Portfolio Companies

Harvard Business Review

What’s more, the demand for rapid growth often comes with a push from investors to enter new markets or ramp up product innovation. He was very smart and polished but didn’t see how his pointed words and micromanaging ways were affecting his management team. Morale was terrible, and important initiatives were flagging.

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The Tangled Web of Net Neutrality and Regulation

Harvard Business Review

.” Businesses and consumers are being warned that Republican lawmakers are united in their determination to not just modify the FCC’s 2015 Open Internet Order, but to “kill,” “destroy,” “dismantle,” or “abolish,” the open internet, as soon as possible. More on that later.)