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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

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Had they set out simply to make a profit, Apple likely wouldn’t be the revolutionary technology leader it is today. Not only do lifelong learners make the best employees for us, but we also perform better as a business when our clients are lifelong learners. Your corporate values should also align with your business model.

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Corporate Purpose: Monumental Change Starts With Your Leadership

CO2

Had they set out simply to make a profit, Apple likely wouldn’t be the revolutionary technology leader it is today. Not only do lifelong learners make the best employees for us, but we also perform better as a business when our clients are lifelong learners. Your corporate values should also align with your business model.

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How Banks Can Compete Against an Army of Fintech Startups

Harvard Business Review

It’s been more than 25 years since Bill Gates dismissed retail banks as “dinosaurs,” but the statement may be as true today as it was then. Gates’ original quote contended that the dinosaurs can be ”bypassed.” Lending to small and medium-sized businesses is ready to move online.

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Focus on Your Customer's Customer

Harvard Business Review

To understand the work, first you need to understand an airport's business model: its real customer isn't travelers, but the airlines that rent the gates and terminals, much like a mall owner leases space to retailers. The primary research also identified six underlying passenger needs and desires.

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China Needs a New Generation of Dreamers (and New Dreams)

Harvard Business Review

The same could well be said of Bill Gates, who has left mere connectivity behind in his quest to eradicate major human diseases. Searching for new ideas at Haier involves a competitive screening of business model proposals, open to all, out of which projects and project leaders are chosen. billion business after two years.

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How Can We Scale Educational Innovations?

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. The challenges of urban K-12 education in the United States, and indeed globally, are at a crisis stage. This raises an interesting question.