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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

What would new product development executives or project managers in the R&D lab tell you are the organizational dynamics that ice their best ideas? business units and functional groups like marketing or human resources set out “challenges” that they’d like employees to work on. Here are six ways to change that.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. In fact, you could say (and many did) that our previous attempts had failed, in that we hadn’t established a sustained market position. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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What Initial Coin Offerings Are, and Why VC Firms Care

Harvard Business Review

Then, via price dynamics determined by market supply and demand, the value is settled on by the network of participants, rather than by a central authority or government. Venture capitalists, who generally have been standoffish to the ICO phenomenon, are now becoming more interested in it for a number of reasons. Insight Center.

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Women, Finance the World You Want

Harvard Business Review

Project this image of the feminine ideal into the world of investing and the only "socially acceptable" roles for women are limited — perhaps doing due diligence as a "helper" or writing a check as a donor. Next, do your due diligence (or homework) on the stock. Investing is about taking stock in you.

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The Road to Crowdfunding Hell

Harvard Business Review

That is the problem: crowdfunding will at best be good only for the entrepreneurs and middlemen, paid for by unwitting consumers who simply cannot know enough about the highly risky ventures or the highly complex venture investing process to make informed investment decisions. Due diligence is too expensive.