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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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The Economy of Punishment

Harvard Business Review

Think about the repercussions of investing this money in incarceration instead in our education or healthcare systems. That these guys who had run drug businesses had all these entrepreneurial characteristics like scrappiness, charisma, and real skills in leadership and management."

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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. In the start-up world, there’s a big focus on business incubators such as YCombinator–perhaps too much focus. Most stagnate.

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

Harvard Business Review

They’re defined by high levels of “buy-in” from owners, investors, managers, and employees. ” In this era, large multinational firms are essentially “systems integrators”—they depend on suppliers, mostly Small and Medium Manufacturers (SMMs), to provide most of the needed components in any product.

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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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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. The similarities between the steps in the two methods are so literal that design thinking can come across as a knock-off.