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How Corporate HQ Can Get More from Innovation Outposts

Harvard Business Review

And, of course, it looks cool — both inside the organization and to outsiders. They received generous expat remuneration packages and the tremendous opportunity to create their own social capital by meeting entrepreneurs and venture capitalists and being exposed to the frontier of ideas and technologies.

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The Serendipity Machine

Mills Scofield

The power of viral marketing makes it sensible for Seats2meet.com to provide workspaces without asking for financial compensation. Of course, this strategy only works because Seats2meet.com also offers a premium service: its meeting and office spaces. In return, they were able to get rid of their marketing department.

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Don’t Write Off the (Western) Focused Firm Yet

Harvard Business Review

In our opinion, which of the two is the more successful depends on the context in which the business operates. Of course more often than not you would find out that such extreme customization is not profitable. As long as the revenues you obtain from those customers exceed your costs, you will turn a profit.

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What It Takes to Become a Great Product Manager

Harvard Business Review

Because I teach a course on Product Management at Harvard Business School, I am routinely asked “what is the role of a Product Manager?” Performing market assessments. Managing tight deadlines, revenue targets, market demands, prioritization conflicts, and resource constraints all at once is not for the faint of heart.

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3 Things the Most Creative Leaders Do

Harvard Business Review

I’ve paid attention to how the best of them operate — how they nurture creativity all around them — and I’ve noticed three things: They build core enthusiast communities inside and outside of their organizations. .” Some eventually cross over to become full-time employees. Further Reading.

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Case Study: Is Holacracy for Us?

Harvard Business Review

“Of course,” he added, “I think the applause would be even louder if I’d talked about the holacracy initiative.” But it would take a lot of social capital. ” Rogier handed the microphone over to Henning Haas, the CEO of Contect’s Germany group, and came backstage where Derek was waiting.

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What Africa's Entrepreneurs Can Teach the World

Harvard Business Review

It's becoming ever clearer that entrepreneurship is the answer to the vexing economic questions facing Africa today: job creation, capital formation, skills acquisition, taxation-based self-sufficiency, quality of governance-demand, and of course social inclusion. But how has it actually evolved in Africa?