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India's Exploding Digital Economy

Harvard Business Review

Recently, I had the privilege of moderating a conference of global entrepreneurs and venture capitalists in Mumbai — an event called Founders Forum India. Fueling this explosion is a fact of national culture: Indians love media. Many at the conference articulated the idea simply. Yes, there are challenges.

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How an NBA Team Thinks About Data, Talent, and Pricing

Harvard Business Review

Between ticket sales, sponsorships, merchandising, and media rights, Price Waterhouse Coopers estimates global sports revenues will grow to total roughly $145 billion. We now have entire conferences dedicated to the analytics of our business and our basketball operations. These aren’t mom and pop operations anymore.

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Africa's Chance to Leapfrog the West

Harvard Business Review

These concerns get polite nods here and there but, mostly, serious Africans ignore them and firmly redirect the conversation back to private equity, or franchise deals, or something along those lines. What matters is how entrepreneurs and innovators, especially social innovators, employ this set of tools within prevailing constraints.

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Why Social Marketing Is So Hard

Harvard Business Review

TED has its main conferences (TED in the US and TEDGlobal in Europe) where people with relatively big wallets gather once a year to hear smart people give short talks, creating "ideas worth spreading." In June 2009, they announced a program called TEDx that allow many to organize their own TED-inspired conference.

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How Ford Is Thinking About the Future

Harvard Business Review

“We are getting pull from enterprises,” Ford Mobility head Marcy Klevorn said recently on a media conference call. But it’s also vital that the core franchise adapt to market changes. Establish new rules, norms, and metrics. This “Tranformation A” is already well underway as well.