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When the Leader Needs Help

Great Leadership By Dan

You’re afraid of losing control over quality and design. - You have to shift from being an entrepreneur to becoming an executive if you’re going to survive and thrive - both the business and you personally (health and sanity). But most entrepreneurs struggle with this change.

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How Big Data Is Changing Disruptive Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Much fanfare has been paid to the term “disruptive innovation” over the past few years. Disruptive innovations are: Cheaper (from a customer perspective). Were Google’s Android phones disruptive to Nokia? Professor Clayton M.

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Overcoming the Barriers to Corporate Entrepreneurship

Strategy Driven

In fact, a team of researchers from the City University of Hong Kong found that while supplier involvement significantly increases the quality and reliability, time to market, and innovativeness of new products, customer involvement has only a minor influence on quality and reliability.

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Making African Health Care Radically Cheaper

Harvard Business Review

Disruptive innovations can play a critical role in democratizing healthcare by making goods and services affordable and convenient enough that large populations of under-served consumers become able to access them. Entrepreneurs and private-sector organizations are particularly well-placed to bring such disruptive innovations to life.

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Why Emerging Markets Don't Need Elon Musk

Harvard Business Review

Elon Musk, the South Africa-born entrepreneur, recently unveiled his proposals for the Hyperloop , a groundbreaking high-speed transportation system. The frontier economy has unimaginable appeal to the skilled engineers and savvy entrepreneurs. Japan itself used to be labeled a copycat with low quality products.

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Entrepreneurship Always Leads to Inequality

Harvard Business Review

The Boston Innovation District’s meteoric real estate prices are pushing the very entrepreneurs who made the district sexy towards neighboring districts where rents have not tripled since 2010. So is inequality, when it is directly created by entrepreneurs, good or bad? Entrepreneurship, per se, can create many social goods.

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China Needs a New Generation of Dreamers (and New Dreams)

Harvard Business Review

China leads the world in population, and probably in sheer numbers of entrepreneurs as well, but does it lead the world in innovative dreams? Dreams power innovation, and innovation is key to all of our futures, but who’s dreaming on China’s behalf? So what about China? Can you name five?