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How Corporate HQ Can Get More from Innovation Outposts

Harvard Business Review

They received generous expat remuneration packages and the tremendous opportunity to create their own social capital by meeting entrepreneurs and venture capitalists and being exposed to the frontier of ideas and technologies. They worked with little coordination and control from HQ. Propagate intelligence and insights.

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With New York Schools Appointment, Bloomberg Did it His Way

Harvard Business Review

And it's true that outsiders, like Lou Gerstner at IBM , have sometimes been great successes. But many people counter that Klein had at least taught — and moreover, that much of his success piggybacked on reforms made by former Chancellor Rudy Crew.