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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. Provide a Report. Buy Equipment.

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The Economy of Punishment

Harvard Business Review

That these guys who had run drug businesses had all these entrepreneurial characteristics like scrappiness, charisma, and real skills in leadership and management." At the core of Cat's program is a powerful acknowledgement of the skills and talents that former drug dealers and gang leaders possess.

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

Harvard Business Review

Many of them started off selling merchandise from their apartments or homes, and some evolved to become power sellers. 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. Most stagnate.

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

Harvard Business Review

For example, France used a combination of national public policy and procurement to build a world-class nuclear power industry. They’re defined by high levels of “buy-in” from owners, investors, managers, and employees. Power to the people. They’re an important basis of “bottom-up innovation.”

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Design Thinking Is Fundamentally Conservative and Preserves the Status Quo

Harvard Business Review

It, too, was enthusiastically embraced by managers and policy makers, and was invoked to reshape practices in firms and government. Protecting the Powerful. Both design thinking and the rational-experimental approach implicitly establish problem solving as the remit of the powerful, especially when it comes design for social ends.