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The Fine Print on Job Creators: Part III How can you measure job creation when it’s a moving target, and what effect does policy in one area (healthcare) has on another (job creation)?
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April 17, 2013

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Fine Print Job Creators II
The Fine Print on Job Creators: Part II If you use the Small Business Administration’s definition of a small business employing fewer than 500 people, 98% of business establishments are small.
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April 5, 2013

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Lessons from Zumba: 4 Ways to Lead Your Company's Innovation and Growth Lessons from Zumba cofounders Alberto Perlman '98 and Alberto Aghion on innovation, growth, and resilience during the past decade.
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March 21, 2013

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The Sharing Economy “The best ideas are the ones that have been around for a long time," is a starting point for the growing entrepreneurial movement to exploit the notion of collective consumption putting a technology-powered new spin on sharing, renting, or bartering goods and services.
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March 18, 2013

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Got a Great Idea? Prove It Entrepreneurs by temperament are gushing wells of inspiration—new businesses, new solutions to old problems, and new approaches. In those first bursts of imagination, an opportunity appears suddenly obvious, even if the path to success will be long and full of false starts. And, then, another idea might manifest, seeming as brilliant as the first.
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March 18, 2013

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Stripped Down Business School What if business students arrived on campus already equipped with business fundamentals—the subjects of large review classes such as basic accounting, financial modeling, and marketing? How might business colleges, stripped of the need to provide everyone with a baseline of skills, still attract business-minded students?
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March 18, 2013

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How to Sell Disruption Even with a compelling story to tell, one of the most difficult chores of disrupting a market is actually convincing people they should change.
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March 18, 2013

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A Profile of Omidyar Network Instead of simply giving money to accelerate social good, Omidyar Network behaves like a venture capital firm, investing in global businesses whose result is public good.
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March 18, 2013

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Octopus, Social Innovation, and the Power of Narrative instead of simply giving money to accelerate social good, Omidyar Network behaves like a venture capital firm, investing in global businesses whose result is public good.
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March 18, 2013

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Crowdfunding Social Entrepreneurs, Part I Crowdfunding is an Internet-powered evolution of an age-old activity, and it’s providing social entrepreneurs with access to capital, customers, and ideas.
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March 18, 2013

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