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The Entrepreneurial Corporation: Oxymoron? | In the CEO Afterlife

In the CEO Afterlife

The giants dominated markets and gobbled up competitors; they also failed to cope with rapid change. 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. Human Resources. Did you like this? Share it: Tweet.

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

Harvard Business Review

For their data, the researchers turned to the movie business, where all three types of resources are at work on every project. Studying 837 mass-market movies released between 1996 and 2003, they collected data on the movies’ producers and their prior experience.

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Corporate Entrepreneurship: Turn Irony into Opportunity

In the CEO Afterlife

Corporate giants dominated markets and gobbled up competitors; along the way they failed to cope with rapid change. The change-makers are small- to medium-size enterprises that either lead niche categories or are hell-bent on knocking the big guy from the top rung of a mass market.