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The Hidden Costs of Initial Coin Offerings

Harvard Business Review

More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture. In fact, ICOs have upended the conventional pattern of staged experimentation and fundraising.

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How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Harvard Business Review

Developed alongside business magnate Nandan Nilekani, “ the biggest social project on the planet ” relies on community-operated Common Service Centers (CSCs) and local entrepreneurs to deliver programs and share in the profits. Manage people effectively through decentralized teams across organizations.

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‘Upskilling’ a top priority for the decade ahead

HR Digest

It requires employers, educators, government administrators, and not-for-profit organizations to come together to develop plans to help people become more resilient, capable, and agile. Participants of the network have a shared vision of a more equitable talent marketplace driven by emerging technologies and evolving data standards.

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Stop Talking About Social and Do It

Harvard Business Review

"Leadership" has changed when a decentralized group of people can take down a government. Communities of proximity, where participants share a geographic location (Craigslist is an example but co-working locations are another) will allow people to organize work differently. From isolated organizations to communities.

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How Blockchain Is Changing Finance

Harvard Business Review

Blockchain was originally developed as the technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin. By reducing transaction costs among all participants in the economy, blockchain supports models of peer-to-peer mass collaboration that could make many of our existing organizational forms redundant. Here, blockchain is a real game changer.

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An Entrepreneurial Society Needs an Entrepreneurial State

Harvard Business Review

This post is one in a series of perspectives by presenters and participants in the 8th Global Drucker Forum. Mission-oriented thinking could also be used to develop technology roadmaps for the 17 sustainable development goals. And in the energy sector, solar, nuclear, wind, and even shale gas, were primed by public finance.