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The Promise of a Truly Entrepreneurial Society

Harvard Business Review

There are lessons here for giant corporations and the stock markets they trade on. According to the 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Index , by 2050 low-income economies will need to integrate more than two billion young adults into the world economy. Drucker Forum 2016: The Entrepreneurial Society.

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Smart Business is Business Redefined

Leading Blog

Instead, Alibaba is what you get if you take every function associated with retail and coordinate them online into a sprawling, data-driven network of sellers, marketers, service providers, logistics companies, and manufacturers. In 2015, she prepared to sell a batch of 15 new clothing items at 3:00 p.m.

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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. CEOs need to know how a change in strategy (a new target market, say, or a new product) will affect manufacturing, marketing, selling, servicing, and other processes.

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Why Startups Like Uber Stumble Over Problems They Could Have Avoided

Harvard Business Review

Individual founders can become a barrier to growth if they are unable to let go of the details and micromanage, or fail to build a cohesive team around them, or allow hubris to get in their way. But over time the market changes and the company needs to change its model. But many individual founders aren’t scalable.

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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.)