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How Corporate HQ Can Get More from Innovation Outposts

Harvard Business Review

It’s expensive, but you agree to pay an innovation premium because you appreciate that in innovation clusters the search for talent is fierce. The Explainer: Disruptive Innovation. Consider a European energy company that decided to open an innovation outpost in Silicon Valley a number of years ago.

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The Five Stages of Disruption Denial

Harvard Business Review

Not disruption as the occasional event, but disruption as the constant, chronic condition of our professional lives. You would hope that we were getting better at understanding and managing change. At this point, there can more social capital in saying that we don''t like the tech than that we do.