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How to Have an Impact without Electricity and the Internet

Mills Scofield

I began traveling to Haiti as a volunteer in 2007 and moved here in 2010 to launch an organization called GOALS. I find myself hammering out emails at 11PM on Sunday with the TV on and my phone lighting up with messages. Mostly this has to do with living in Haiti. In the U.S.,

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The Industrial Revolution That Never Was

Harvard Business Review

He had grown up in northwestern Germany, where his father owned mills that heated small amounts of charcoal and iron together to make steel that could be hammered and sharpened into knife blades. Their biggest customers were blacksmiths who hammered a few inches of heated iron bar into a horseshoe or a hinge. Innovation Technology'

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The Branding Logic Behind Google’s Creation of Alphabet

Harvard Business Review

Concerned about the company’s lack of focus, Wall Street hammered the Starbucks stock, resulting in a drop in share price of 28% in one day – a $2 billion loss in the company’s market capitalization. Think of the equity of a brand in terms of a bank account.

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Big-Project Engineers Have to Deal with Too Much Red Tape

Harvard Business Review

Nineteen days later, as rescue crews grew desperate, a 24-year-old field engineer named Igor Proestakis decided to travel to the site with what he hoped was a breakthrough idea: using a particular drilling technology, called cluster hammers, to cut through the collapsed rock. Innovation in Cities. Insight Center.