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How a Startup Accelerator at Boston Children’s Hospital Helps Doctors Launch Companies

Harvard Business Review

It has accelerated nine projects and spun three of them out as start-up companies that have secured over $2 million in venture funding. But only 34% were actively piloting a digital technology in clinical practice. Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care. Sponsored by Optum. The product is in pre-clinical trial today.

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People Are the New Channel

Harvard Business Review

For marketers, this of course changes everything. As part of an awards program that one of us (Cara) created and the other (Mark) helped judge, we had the opportunity to see how hundreds of top marketers in Silicon Valley are engaging customers and growing revenue in this new era. The results? The result?

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Refugees Need Jobs. Entrepreneurship Can Help.

Harvard Business Review

All too often, entrepreneurship is equated with technology startups. Any Americans, British, and Europeans who are apprehensive about low-skilled immigrants pouring into their cities, should take heart in the stabilizing force of job creation. But it is much more than that. We know what a disunited Europe looks like.

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The Disruption of Venture Capital

Harvard Business Review

".most often the very skills that propel an organization to succeed in sustaining circumstances systematically bungle the best ideas for disruptive growth. In November 2005, Paul Graham wrote an essay titled " The Venture Capital Squeeze." A key constraining resource in traditional venture is a VC investor's time.

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Getting Smarter about Google's "Brain Drain"

Harvard Business Review

Just yesterday, on the front page of the New York Times , came a report about how "low-level engineers, product managers and prominent managers" from the executive ranks are leaving the company for high-profile companies such as Facebook as well as venture-funded startups of the sort that dot the technology landscape.

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How to Manage People Who Are Smarter than You

Harvard Business Review

Earlier this year, Emily Burns, founder and CEO of Learnivore, the Boston-based start-up that helps people find local instructors, coaches, and classes, set out to hire a chief technology officer. Today Emily and Heather are working together to put the company in the best position for possible venture funding.

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Four Innovation Trends to Watch in 2013

Harvard Business Review

So here are four innovation ideas — themes, really — sure to gain significantly greater mind- and market-share over the coming year. From Khan Academy to Coursera to edX to the O'Reilly School of Technology, badges increasingly enjoy consideration as human capital's coin of the the realm for online education.