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Meet Your New R&D Team: Social Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

The smartest minds in social innovation are increasingly committed to engaging with the private sector to make significant changes in areas like health, education, and poverty. What happens when you reverse that model and place these investments at the front-end of your corporate innovation strategy? The Innovation Continuum.

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The Guru's Guide to Creating Thought Leadership

Harvard Business Review

trade deficit with Japan grew through the 1980s, for example, influential thinkers increasingly focused on how managerial innovations used in Japanese firms might be imported and adapted in the U.S. Hamel and Prahalad combined the old resource view with an emphasis on differentiation, made popular in the 1980s by Michael Porter.

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Monitor, Libya, and the Perils of a Blurred-Line World

Harvard Business Review

firm — founded in 1983 by several folks with Harvard Business School ties (among them famed professor Michael Porter ) — is known for strategy consulting, not PR work. In times of change, businesses have to adapt and innovate. (And not just because, at Monitor, they appear to prefer the spelling "Qhadafi.")

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HBR’s Guide to Obama’s 2014 State of the Union

Harvard Business Review

” HBR did a deep dive on women and business this fall, and a good place to start is this research roundup covering discrimination, work-life balance, ethics, compensation, and more. On the latter topic, check out Michael Porter and Thomas Lee, who lay out a strategy for improving the health care industry. Pisano and Willy C.