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The $300 House: Go, Go, Go!

Harvard Business Review

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. In rich countries we've seen all manner of "master-planned" real estate communities. These scholarships are also being funded by Ingersoll Rand.

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The Problems With Incubators, and How to Solve Them

Harvard Business Review

Inexperienced friends and family (and, increasingly, crowdsourced investors) lack the ability to gauge the viability of a business, or to mentor naïve entrepreneurs. This knowledge gap, I have come to believe, is best filled by savvy incubators. However, there are over 7,500 business incubators around the world.

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Design Thinking Is Fundamentally Conservative and Preserves the Status Quo

Harvard Business Review

The lion’s share of the almost $1 billion on offer in the competition was awarded to the Big U , a proposal for a ten-mile segmented wall, made of landscaped bridging berms and moveable gates, to protect the lower half of Manhattan and the very valuable real estate locate there. A Radically Open Alternative.