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How Big Companies Should Innovate

Harvard Business Review

Mature corporations are designed to execute on the science of delivery — not engage in the art of discovery. Once businesses refine their model as start-ups and move towards mature operations, we as shareholders want them to shift from exploration to efficiency. This was the core thesis of the first article in this series.

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In Big Companies, Lean Is Only One Piece of the Puzzle

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, one of us was sitting in a room at the Harvard Business School with Eric Ries and a number of budding entrepreneurs. rubber trees take years to mature.". Eric looked back at the student and said, "Couldn''t you take some of that grant money and haul in some mature trees to test your assumptions?"

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The Hidden Costs of Initial Coin Offerings

Harvard Business Review

Those benefits fall into three categories: To jumpstart network effects that provide a first-mover advantage: Many of the projects being built using blockchain technology are “protocols” that govern the interactions between users in a decentralized autonomous network. How ICOs Constrain.

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CEOs Should Think Like Founders, Not Just Managers

Harvard Business Review

” Nadella challenged the company to see beyond its legacy products like Windows, invested heavily in new technologies like AI and SaaS, purchased LinkedIn to plug Microsoft services into the company’s social graph, and more. . “If you don’t jump on the new,” he proclaimed, “you don’t survive.”

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