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Three Year-End Innovation Takeaways from Asia

Harvard Business Review

By showing the power of scale economics, he ushered in an era where behemoths created processes to spread their businesses around the globe. As this knowledge continues to build and propagate, I believe there could be a wave of powerful innovation that addresses global challenges like poverty and resource scarcity.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

” Given a choice between a network heavily skewed to the power players in your firm and a good mix of diverse contacts, which would you choose? b Between 1920 and 1930, for example, 87 percent of Broadway shows flopped despite being attached to big names like Rogers and Hammerstein, or Gilbert and Sullivan.

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