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How Corporate HQ Can Get More from Innovation Outposts

Harvard Business Review

Even organizations that remain headquartered in other cities have set up innovation outposts there in the hope that high-tech silicon dust will rub off on them. Setting up innovation outposts in global technology clusters, such as Silicon Valley, Boston, and Tel Aviv, is highly popular among Fortune 500 corporations.

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The Five Stages of Disruption Denial

Harvard Business Review

Call it "disruption denial.". Technology changes. This is an era of disruption. Not disruption as the occasional event, but disruption as the constant, chronic condition of our professional lives. At this point, there can more social capital in saying that we don''t like the tech than that we do.