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Why Entrepreneurs Will Beat Multinationals to the Bottom of the Pyramid

Harvard Business Review

Prahalad and Stuart Hart’s seminal book The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid gained a wide audience when it was published in 2004 and has continued to be widely read ever since. He was asked “what impact have your ideas had on companies and on poor consumers?” But this approach seldom works.

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What We Talk About When We Talk About "Social"

Harvard Business Review

Which doesn't sound so bad, but the risk is misunderstanding, or quite possibly sounding stupid. It's like using poor grammar ; if you use "you're" when you really mean "your," some people are going to notice. Also referred to as Social Innovation or Social Entrepreneurship.). Enterprise 2.0, Do you know? Social Business (1.0).

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Unit Economics: How to Calculate CAC & LTV – It Depends – Podcast Transcript

IM Insights

We provide insights on how to measure innovation , innovation , accounting , and managing the uncertain process of developing new , sustainable , and profitable business models. So I run the , the university startup incubator there and I also teach in the entrepreneurship center. So we’re qualified to talk about the topic.

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What U.S. E-Commerce Can Learn from Its Global Copycats

Harvard Business Review

Frustration came quickly when we couldn''t launch localized country sites or hire teams fast enough to stay in front of the international imitators. With limited purchasing power, low credit card usage, and poor delivery networks, it''s clear that the approach for e-commerce in developing markets has to be different than in the U.S.

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Great Companies Stay True to the Spirit of Their Founders

Harvard Business Review

That’s not just a hunch — among public companies since 1990, returns to shareholders were three times greater at firms where the founder is still part of the management team. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. Few business leaders have developed this attention to the front line as effectively as M.S. Insight Center.