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Entrepreneurs Want Investors To Show Their Sustainable Credentials

The Horizons Tracker

Sustainable consensus. The report suggests that around half of European businesses are prioritizing investments in both sustainability and digital transformation. Investors were pretty consistent in their belief that entrepreneurship will be key to achieving net zero targets.

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Leading in a World of Change: Lessons from Downton Abbey

Great Leadership By Dan

At the same time, the advent of new ground breaking technologies such as electricity and motorization – today we would call them disruptive – allowed the estates to operate with significantly less staff. The fundamental business model that had sustained the great estates for hundreds of years was unraveling.

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Transformational Entrepreneurship: Where Technology Meets Societal Impact

Harvard Business Review

The slow decline of industrial manufacturing in developed nations and recent failures of financial capitalism across the globe have sent us searching for a new model of economic growth. I see the two movements of Technology Entrepreneurship and Social Entrepreneurship beginning to converge into a promising solution.

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What Blockchain Can’t Do

Harvard Business Review

Blockchain technology has the potential to do amazing things. It can help businesses and individuals agree, on a global scale, about the true state of affairs within a market without relying on a costly intermediary. However, when assessing blockchain business models, it is useful to understand what blockchain can’t do.

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How Structured Debate Helps Your Team Grow

Harvard Business Review

Once a team has reached, or appears to have reached, a consensus, it can be very hard for any individual to challenge the group’s interpretation of reality or predictions about the future — or to push back on what the group plans to do (or not do) — without running the risk of being perceived as a heretic or becoming a scapegoat.

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NewTV Is the Antithesis of a Lean Startup. Can It Work?

Harvard Business Review

But as Carlota Perez has so aptly described, all new technology industries go through an eruption and frenzy phase, followed by a crash, and then a golden age and maturity. Then the cycle repeats with a new set of technologies. Some have labeled this period as irrational exuberance. So we built them. The result? Seize the Cash.

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Amazon's Kindle Fire Is a Disruptive Innovation

Harvard Business Review

On the other hand, the consensus was strong among market observers that Apple should not be concerned at all and that it should keep on doing exactly what it's doing — making more powerful tablets. There is scalable technology at its core that the present-generation iPad lacks — the extensive use of the Cloud.