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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

Innovation Capital. And one of the most overlooked reasons for entrepreneurial failure is innovation capital. That’s why I enjoyed talking with Jeff Dyer who, along with Nathan Furr and Curtis Lefrandt, wrote a new book, Innovation Capital: How to Compete and Win Like the World’s Innovative Leaders.

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Social Capital Is as Important as Financial Capital in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

But effective cooperation, particularly in a setting as complex as health care, requires more than a resolve to play well together; it requires leadership to explicitly recognize the need to build social capital across the organization, and implement a strategy accomplish it. Leading Health Care Innovation.

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The New Kind of Worker Every Business Needs

Harvard Business Review

Most of us think of biotech as the province of multinational pharmaceutical corporations and well-funded ventures, but the founders of BioCurious believe (as they say in their mission statement) "that innovations in biology should be accessible, affordable, and open to everyone." But don''t let that loss of control frighten you.

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Reimagining Capitalism

Harvard Business Review

This isn't a new challenge, but it's more urgent than ever, not just as an effort to escape reform and regulation from the outside, but to restore the public trust, to repair the moral fabric of the system, and to unleash the innovation required to tackle the world's most pressing and important challenges.

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Scotland’s Future Is Bright; the UK’s Might Not Be

Harvard Business Review

Scotland has the intrinsic qualities of successful small advanced economies: an educated population, social capital, and competitive firms. There will be experimentation and innovation as people figure out the best way forward. What does matter is the ability to set economic policy in a way that reflects local context.