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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Tesla’s genius and education led him to develop the foundations for electric induction motors, wireless telegraphy, radios, neon lamps, and remote control. When Edison developed a commercially viable light bulb, he was able to convince Morgan to advance him $30,000 for the Edison Electric Light Company. Championing change is hard.”

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What You Might Not Know About the Cuban Economy

Harvard Business Review

Some travel is easing. When you put all these pieces together around education and health care, it’s clear that Cuba is likely a champion of investment in the development of human capital—but for the last 50 years it has an extremely low economic return on this investment. Cuban ties were restored. There has been a U.S.

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The Importance Of Location For Startups

The Horizons Tracker

Location has always been vital for startups, both in terms of providing ready access to human capital to help develop the startup’s proposition, but also to provide ready access to a local market to help develop momentum. It’s paradoxical, but it turns out that goods travel more easily than ideas,” the researchers conclude.

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The Industries Plagued by the Most Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

For example, a wide variety of clean technologies (including wind, solar, and hydrogen) are vying to power vehicles and cities at the same time that a wide variety of medical technologies (chemical, biotechnological, genomic, and robotic) are being developed to treat diseases. Consider the 2×2 matrix below.