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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

That’s why I enjoyed talking with Jeff Dyer who, along with Nathan Furr and Curtis Lefrandt, wrote a new book, Innovation Capital: How to Compete and Win Like the World’s Innovative Leaders. You have a book that teaches creativity, one that teaches how to test and validate those ideas, and now this one which is unique. Indra Nooyi.

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How to Get Yourself Invited to Important Meetings

Harvard Business Review

How to Design an Agenda for an Effective Meeting. She was on the legal compliance team at a fast-growing biotechnology company. Her role was to work with marketing to ensure that promotional campaigns and materials were in line with government guidelines. The Seven Imperatives to Keeping Meetings on Track. Roger Schwarz.

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What You Might Not Know About the Cuban Economy

Harvard Business Review

There was a spike in the 2000s when Venezuela began to provide petroleum at deeply discounted market prices, and that peaked just before the 2008-09 financial crisis. It is probably the best, most well-trained workforce at the cheapest labor-market price that any international investor could find anywhere in the world.

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So Many M&A Deals Fail Because Companies Overlook This Simple Strategy

Harvard Business Review

After all, if acquisitions pay off they can provide a transformational antidote to a slowing core market and declining margins. Gillette dominated the men’s shaving market with its Mach series of razors. For example, Gilead grew from a tiny startup developing H.I.V.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

This article will show you how to reinvent your network, by managing these three critical dimensions. Uzzi and another colleague, Jarrett Spiro, also discovered that this pattern held across sectors as disparate as the Broadway mu­sical industry and biotechnology. Learn more about your market value. Start a blog.

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India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Chirotech specializes in biocatalysis and chemocatalysis, two important subspecialties of biotechnology and chemistry that help develop key biological and chemical intermediates needed for the efficient production of medicines. It is commonly believed that emerging market companies tap Western R&D talent in order to 'move up the value chain.'

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Five Power Skills for Discovering Radical Ideas

Harvard Business Review

In order to do this, your company needs a process to source radical ideas that can catapult your business to new heights, open up new markets, or bring in completely unfamiliar profit streams. You can teach people how to find pivots. But in today’s ever-connected world, finding radical ideas seems to be getting tougher for companies.

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