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Why Consumer Tech Is So Irritatingly Incremental

Harvard Business Review

after chemicals). Most entrepreneurs still think that just because their technology is superior it will inevitably be widely adopted in the marketplace. To produce radials, the U.S. Almost none of their patents would be useful (the tire business was the second most research-intensive industry in the U.S

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What Great Social Media Campaigns Get Right

Harvard Business Review

Today, their annual conference brings together well-known corporate innovators, such as Harvard’s Clayton Christensen, Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh and author Daniel Pink, to mix with an eclectic assortment of social entrepreneurs and devise solutions to society’s thorniest problems. It is now a cult favorite in the innovation world.

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