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How Do I Start Your Own Business?

Strategy Driven

Knowing the cost of a business is essential in determining whether a business is profitable. Determine your Potential Market. If any of these numbers are insignificant compared to the cost of running your business, you need to revisit or change your plan. Part 3 Creating a Marketing Plan. Identify Obstacles.

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The $300 House: Go, Go, Go!

Harvard Business Review

The Marketing Challenge. Editor's note: This post was written with Christian Sarkar , a marketing consultant who also works on environmental issues. Winners will be selected by the community and a panel of judges and will receive a scholarship to a June "prototyping workshop" led by COMMON , a social business incubator.

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The Economy of Punishment

Harvard Business Review

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? Think about the repercussions of investing this money in incarceration instead in our education or healthcare systems.

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

Harvard Business Review

The invention of modern transistors, the adoption of standardized shipping containers, and the advent of low-cost assembly lines in East Asia lowered costs and created larger markets for televisions and radios, setting the stage for an Asian manufacturing powerhouse. By the time that substantial U.S. By the time that substantial U.S.

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Helping Bring World Leading Education To Refugees

The Horizons Tracker

Ensuring that refugees have valid credentials to enter the labor market is a consistent challenge, especially when many qualifications from their homeland struggle for acceptance in their adopted land. It’s a base that a new venture, emanating from MIT’s business incubator and idea marketplace MIT Solve, aims to build upon.

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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.