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Innovation in Complex Civic Environments

Mills Scofield

While the pace of innovation is driving unprecedented change in the private sector – including communications, finance and even how we eat -- not enough has changed in how communities address education, economic, environmental or public health challenges and opportunities.

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CMI Hong Kong: updates from the board

Chartered Management Institute

Mellisa Patrick CMgr MCMI, CMI’s programme development manager, attended the event to engage with potential new partners, including universities, colleges, and technical and vocational education and training (TVET) providers. We look forward to more collaborations with different organisations and insightful engagement events in the new year!

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Is the Next Karl Marx a Management Consultant?

Harvard Business Review

A brief sampling: Michael Porter and Mark Kramer's " Creating Shared Value ;" Christoper Meyer and Julia Kirby's " Runaway Capitalism ;" Dominic Barton's " Capitalism for the Long Term ;" the collected works of Umair Haque. And in that he sounds a lot like Michael Porter, Dominic Barton, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, etc. Note to U.S.

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Is Venture Capital Broken?

Harvard Business Review

Our research suggests that investors like us succumb time and again to narrative fallacies, a well-studied behavioral finance bias. Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns.

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In 2014, Resolve to Make Your Business Human Again

Harvard Business Review

Worshipping at what Christensen calls the “church of finance” hollows out a company’s competitive advantage, as it loses the capacity to invest in innovation that drives the perpetual reinvention so necessary in today’s world of temporary competitive advantage. And short-term numbers at that.

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Is Venture Capital Broken?

Harvard Business Review

Our research suggests that investors like us succumb time and again to narrative fallacies, a well-studied behavioral finance bias. Barriers to entry are decreasing and disruptive entrants are surging, a recipe that both Michael Porter and Clayton Christensen could agree augurs poorly for industry returns.

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The $300 House: A Hands-On Approach to a Wicked Problem

Harvard Business Review

From the start we asked: What are the complexities of financing these homes? We are also bringing students to India and Haiti to do ethnographic research that will inform development of a $300 House, and when prototypes are developed, they will be deployed and tested with those who will live in them. Triple the U.S.

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