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How to Make Sustainability Every Employee’s Responsibility

Harvard Business Review

My framework for creating such sustainability ownership has three phases: incubate, launch, and entrench. Incubation is the process of, first, defining the contours of your sustainability domain by reflecting on the purpose of your business and its specific role in the world. billion, prompting them to revisit the goal.

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Why Does Teach for America Spawn So Many Entrepreneurs?

Harvard Business Review

In this way, TFA, like all organizations, develops particular competencies through the careers of its members. This program builds connections between recent alumni interested in starting ventures and established social entrepreneurs, mimicking other career-related network structures that promote entrepreneurship and new venture formation.

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A Playbook for Making America More Entrepreneurial

Harvard Business Review

The Playbook is a policy menu, based around three core needs of small businesses: access to capital; people and skills; and innovation ecosystems. A supplier might need a working capital loan to finance a big order. People and skills. This research shows that the market for middle skills operates very poorly.

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The Myth of the Intrapreneur

Harvard Business Review

To start, innovation must be recognized as a permanent function of a successful company, just like other business functions such as accounting, operations, sales, and finance. Lastly, companies need (8) skills and talent that are differentiated from traditional R&D or new product development roles.

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

Harvard Business Review

has lost what Harvard Business School’s Willy Shih calls the “ industrial commons ”: indispensable production skills and capabilities. Exposure to real-world engineering is a crucial and cost-effective way to build interest in manufacturing careers—through either four-year engineering degrees or vocational training.