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Where to Find Authentic Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

But unlike most Japanese innovations, it did not come from a big established firm. Coming out of Peru, you’ll find Kola Real, formed during a coup d’état in 1988, not exactly an ideal environment for business incubation. Ultimately, this little device proliferated worldwide, and made a lot of money along the way.

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Getting Buy-In for Innovation that Doesn’t Fade at the End of the Quarter

Harvard Business Review

In fact, given the risk-averse culture of the organization and the tough market environment, you suspect they will likely re-evaluate within six months. Entrepreneurship Execution Innovation' Even though there is a three-year execution horizon, they expect results in the first year.

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Helping Bring World Leading Education To Refugees

The Horizons Tracker

It’s a base that a new venture, emanating from MIT’s business incubator and idea marketplace MIT Solve, aims to build upon. Course content is stored on secure digital (SD) cards to enable access at all times, with collective learning spaces also provided to help create a learning environment. Systemic hurdles.

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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. When it comes to design thinking, the bloom is off the rose. A New Name for an Old Method.