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How Do I Start Your Own Business?

Strategy Driven

Instead of signing a lease in an upscale neighbourhood, prefer renting in a cheaper area or use a business incubator. In some places, universities and other organizations offer low-rent spaces designed for new business ventures, especially when accompanied by innovative scientific ideas. 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. It can cost as much as $60,000 a year to house a prisoner, which means the annual cost to taxpayers exceeds $60 billion. With this realization, Cat began a life committed to honoring the talents and skills of those in prison.

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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

” 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. They’re defined by high levels of “buy-in” from owners, investors, managers, and employees.

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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. Systemic hurdles. Of course, while lack of credentials is a significant barrier to accessing gainful employment, there remain a number of systemic challenges to overcome.

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The Core Incompetencies of the Corporation

Harvard Business Review

Most of the recommended remedies—idea wikis, business incubators, online collaboration, design thinking, “authentic” leadership, et al —are no more than minor tweaks. As the winds of creative destruction continue to strengthen, these infirmities will become even more debilitating.

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Design Thinking Is Fundamentally Conservative and Preserves the Status Quo

Harvard Business Review

The project is radically agnostic about the water hubs, and contemplates uses in the different centers as wide ranging as a business incubator, a lighthouse, a lab for the study of wildlife, a kayak depot, and a place of contemplation.