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Summaries of the 50 Best Business Books

Destination Innovation

Would you like to have read the best 50 books on sales, marketing, leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship and self-improvement? Just imagine all the insights and lessons you would have learned and how that would have helped you in your business career. But how much time would it have taken?

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How China Creates the Strongest Innovation System

The BMI Lab Blog

At BMI Lab we wanted to learn how they did it, so we travelled to China with some clients, visiting companies, factories, labs and universities to find the recipe for the secret sauce of Chinese innovation. Dr. HAN, Zheng , Chair of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Tongji University Shanghai). But how was this possible?

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Four Innovation Trends to Watch in 2013

Harvard Business Review

What should it mean to employers that someone has successfully completed a core course in Machine Learning or Hadoop? The ability to measure and assess real learning and skills acquisition in virtual environments will. Fed Up Entrepreneurship. Or will be badges be won by passing a demanding array of standardized virtual tests?

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When My Business Failed

Harvard Business Review

The Avon Products Foundation — the charitable arm of the Fortune 500 cosmetics company, illegally appropriated our Breast Cancer 3-Day concept, and on August 11th, 2002, announced their plans for a multi-day walk for breast cancer with full-page ads in major papers across the country. million in 2002 with us, to $11.1

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What’s Your $1 Billion Idea?

Harvard Business Review

In 2002, unsure of what to do with his life, he takes off to surf in Indonesia and Australia. We’ll learn something important. Creativity Entrepreneurship' He wants to capture live-action shots from his surfboard. The only cost-effective way to do this is by strapping a disposable camera to his wrist with rubber bands.

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The JOBS Act, Groupon, and Gullible Investors

Harvard Business Review

The Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act , whatever its eventual impact on entrepreneurship and economic growth, has already accomplished some remarkable things. And since many corporate executives seem congenitally incapable of learning this lesson, there's a place for regulations that push them toward more disclosure.

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The Secret to Alibaba’s Culture Is Jack Ma’s Apartment

Harvard Business Review

In 2002, the year Alibaba.com first became profitable, founder Jack Ma gathered a handful of employees in his office and told them there was a secret project that they had the opportunity to join. Entrepreneurship Innovation' But in Alibaba’s case, it seems to have paid off.

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