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How Do I Start Your Own Business?

Strategy Driven

The two individuals fund high-risk economic initiatives in exchange for participation (partnerships), often bringing experience, management expertise, and contact information. Instead of signing a lease in an upscale neighbourhood, prefer renting in a cheaper area or use a business incubator. Organize your system on the web.

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When Big Companies Support Start-ups, Both Make More Money

Harvard Business Review

Now imagine if eBay went beyond providing a technology platform and entered the field of business incubation in a meaningful way, It’s an idea that could have a huge impact. Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android have fueled a global bonanza in app development. Those making $25,000 a month could perhaps get to $100,000 a month.

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The Core Incompetencies of the Corporation

Harvard Business Review

Managers know how to command obedience and diligence, but most are clueless when it comes to galvanizing the sort of volunteerism that animates life on the social web. Most of the recommended remedies—idea wikis, business incubators, online collaboration, design thinking, “authentic” leadership, et al —are no more than minor tweaks.

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The Economy of Punishment

Harvard Business Review

Think about the repercussions of investing this money in incarceration instead in our education or healthcare systems. So how, as a society, do we develop new instincts towards criminals and what strategies can be effectively employed to reduce the rate of incarceration and the rate of recidivism?

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How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate

Harvard Business Review

firms took offshoring a step further and began contracting design and product development activities overseas around the turn of the millennium when China joined the World Trade Organization and Asian producers started investing in major capacity improvements. By the time that substantial U.S. Don’t fear picking winners.

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Design Thinking Is Fundamentally Conservative and Preserves the Status Quo

Harvard Business Review

Billed as a set of tools for innovation, design thinking has been enthusiastically and, to some extent, uncritically adopted by firms and universities alike as an approach for the development of innovative solutions to complex problems. Then, both approaches move toward developing a theory about how to solve the problem or design challenge.