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The Entrepreneurial Corporation: Oxymoron? | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

I went in assuming his students believed corporate management and entrepreneurship were principles of contradiction and the only contrarians would be members of the flat earth society. The change-makers are small to medium size enterprises that either lead niche categories or are keen to knock the big guy from the top rung of a mass market.

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The More Experience You Have, the Worse You Are at Bootstrapping

Harvard Business Review

If a company wants to generate the most revenue from its resources, it should put its most experienced leaders in charge of those resources. But a new study on Hollywood producers in the Strategic Management Journal reminds us that it’s not that simple. What they wanted to explore is how managers do that.

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Corporate Entrepreneurship: Turn Irony into Opportunity

In the CEO Afterlife

I went in assuming his students believed corporate management and entrepreneurship were principles of contradiction — the only contrarians would be members of the flat earth society. “I want you for balance. My class needs a perspective on entrepreneurship within the corporation — if that really exists.”.