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Zen And The Art Of Small Town Revitalization

The Horizons Tracker

The incubator takes a hefty 75% stake in the business in return for significant financial and human capital support. As well as the shareholding, each startup is required to return 5% of their pre-tax profits to Zen after year 5 of operations. Rural innovation.

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The Power of Workplace DIY

Harvard Business Review

Then, one day, Jenny Killeen, Plural's head of Human Capital, was looking through a colleague's vacation photos and found herself stunned by their beauty. And Jared Kaplan, a music buff from the technology department, volunteered to DJ the evening. Still, it remained a problem because no one liked having blank walls.

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Reflecting on David Garvin’s Imprint on Management

Harvard Business Review

Kaplan’s balanced scorecard or Clayton Christensen’s disruptive innovation. Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. That quality made him (arguably) the quintessential HBR author.