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3 Entrepreneurs Who Made It Their Mission to Lower Health Care Costs

Harvard Business Review

Innovation has the power to ratchet down U.S. It all starts, as the stories below show, with purpose-driven leadership: a determination to provide high-quality, ultra-affordable health care to all, regardless of ability to pay: Saving Eyesight at a Fraction of the Cost. costs quite dramatically over the next decade. His life was set.

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Getting Smarter about Google's "Brain Drain"

Harvard Business Review

Just yesterday, on the front page of the New York Times , came a report about how "low-level engineers, product managers and prominent managers" from the executive ranks are leaving the company for high-profile companies such as Facebook as well as venture-funded startups of the sort that dot the technology landscape.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

At the time, BMW had no dedicated, company-spanning unit to leverage the creative power of startups. Moreover, through venture clienting, startups gain valuable insights into technical, process, and quality requirements and the workings of an actual corporation, which helps them become savvier and more adept at business development.

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

” What we’ve observed is that in most organizations, the innovation power­train is missing several critical components. What makes it useful, though, is the understanding that has developed over time as these criteria have been used to determine which ideas are truly innovative and which aren’t.

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Playing a Dangerous Game With Job Creation

Harvard Business Review

technological and economic leadership in the world. All these industries were created by startups, many of whom used their precious patents to secure funding from venture investors — and then used that funding to hire the people needed to develop the new products, services and medical cures that constantly refresh U.S.