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A New Model for Innovation in Big Companies

Harvard Business Review

Innovation consultancies tend to have a preferred methodology for working with their clients, such as human centered design (also called ‘design thinking,’ popularized by IDEO, Continuum, Frog Design and others), Lean Start-up, or analytical models used by large management consulting firms. A Different Approach.

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Does Your Startup Have a Spending Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

These spending choices require tradeoffs, so entrepreneurs must first develop a strategy for allocating limited resources across a wide range of available options. After managing a sleeve of a successful hedge fund in London for five years, and building ample savings, Colin was ready for his own shop. The first is Colin.

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India's Decade of Collaboration

Harvard Business Review

Biocon's core competency lies in building and orchestrating global innovation networks — the cornerstone of a polycentric innovation model. Inventors are engineers, scientists, or entrepreneurs who come up with an original idea. Transformers. Many Indian companies we interact with confuse invention and innovation.

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