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How Corporates Can Best Engage With Startups

The Horizons Tracker

Working with startups is something many organizations strive to do in order to tap into the innovation and ingenuity such partnerships can bring. Not only do sponsors often regard the incubator as proof of their innovation prowess, but startups often regard acceptance into the incubator as job done. Successful partnerships.

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Connect Inventors with the Right Problems

Harvard Business Review

Priceline’s unique “conditional purchase offer” – which allowed bidders to make low-ball offers which they were bound to honor if accepted – was an innovative solution that taught a big lesson: when underused assets are more fully exploited, everyone can win.

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Are Uber and Facebook Turning Users into Lobbyists?

Harvard Business Review

With this week’s in-feed promotion of Internet.org, Facebook crossed the line between promoting general civic engagement and sponsoring citizen communication by supporting a specific company program favorable to its commercial interests. We’re being introduced to a new lever of corporate influence on democracy.