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JANUARY 3, 2019

Building upon the success of Braden Kelley’s Blogging Innovation, we launched Innovation Excellence on August 1, 2011 and so 2018 was our seventh full year of operations.

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MAY 11, 2023

I originally wrote about this in 2011 and shared the story of an 18-year-old server at a pizza restaurant who took so much pride in his work that the guests thought […] GUEST POST from Shep Hyken One of my favorite concepts to cover in my customer service keynote speeches is to act like an owner.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 6, 2020

Building upon the success of Braden Kelley’s Blogging Innovation, we launched Innovation Excellence on August 1, 2011 and so 2019 was our eighth full year of operations.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 2, 2018

Building upon the success of Braden Kelley's Blogging Innovation, we launched Innovation Excellence on August 1, 2011 and so 2017 was our sixth full year of operations. Click the link if you missed.

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Innovation Excellence

JANUARY 5, 2017

Building upon the success of Braden Kelley’s Blogging Innovation, we launched Innovation Excellence on August 1, 2011 and so 2016 was our fifth full year of operations.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Innovation and Entrepreneurship by Peter Drucker In this classic book published in 1985, Peter F. Drucker “presents innovation and entrepreneurship as a practice and a discipline.” He focuses on the Practice of innovation, Practice of entrepreneurship, and Entrepreneurial strategies.

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Open Innovation EU

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

I recently ran into an article (Walrave et al 2011) that analyzed a simulation of investing in exploration vs. exploitation. In this strategy companies focus on social innovation, entrepreneurship, ideation and technology. Flamboyant strategy: a competitive strategy in a highly energetic ecosystem with lots of opportunities.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

According to the annual 2014 Youth Entrepreneurship Study conducted by YEC and Buzz Marketing Group, 81 percent of non-self-employed individuals believe they will be a business owner or self-employed at some point because of the new economy. Eighty-seven percent of young people want to pursue entrepreneurship. This must change.

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APRIL 6, 2017

The Founder , starring Michael Keaton as McDonald’s founder Ray Kroc , is the best film about innovation since Moneyball in 2011. Here’s that specific clip: The sequence of events that describe the McDonald’s brothers story is a case study in American entrepreneurship. Michael Keaton as Ray Kroc in The Founder.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 24, 2012

Social entrepreneurship has evolved a great deal since the late 1980s, when pioneers like City Year 's Alan Khazei and Teach for America 's Wendy Kopp took great risks to prove that innovative organizations could produce transformative social change.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 10, 2014

Deservedly vaunted venture capitalist Tom Perkins’ callous, arrogant and elitist recent comments should not serve as an expedient excuse to overlook an important “dirty little secret” about entrepreneurship, the acknowledged engine of economic growth: successful entrepreneurship always exacerbates local inequality , at least in the short run.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Entrepreneurship is not always about the money, and late-career individuals who voluntarily transition to it are generally better off. Our data came from five biennial surveys conducted between 2002 and 2011 for the English Longitudinal Study of Aging funded by the UK government. Our analyses yielded some further results.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Recently, TFA introduced a program to promote entrepreneurship in education called the Social Entrepreneurship Initiative. Adapted from the paper "Spawning Entrepreneurial Leaders: The Impact of the TFA Career Experience on New Ventures in Education," to be delivered at the 2011 Academy of Management meeting.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Forthcoming research from economists at the University of Maryland and the Census Bureau shows that business dynamism has been declining across a broad range of sectors during the last few decades–and the single biggest contributor is a declining rate of entrepreneurship. Even more striking was the declining entrepreneurship.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

We had an active and impassioned discussion on global topics including health, water, sustainability, entrepreneurship, and employment. He has been named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer for 2011. This morning I participated in a working session between the WEF's Technology Pioneers and Social Entrepreneurs.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 1, 2014

businesses in 2011—up from 23 percent in 1992, for an increase of half in just under two decades. The evidence suggests that a decline in entrepreneurship is playing a major role; perhaps the largest. Economy Entrepreneurship' Mature firms (those aged 16 years or more) comprised 34 percent of U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

The rate of business formation in 2011 was almost half of what it was in 1978, with the rate of dissolution somewhat higher than the past couple decades. Deep, disruptive economic change is all around us, but the data indicates that the national response has not been, contrary to our myths and history, one of increased entrepreneurship.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

Founders Forum is a franchise started by two successful UK-based entrepreneurs, Brent Hoberman and Jonnie Goodwin, to stimulate US-style entrepreneurship in the European region, and now around the world. The Indian government sponsored the introduction of 3G services in 2011 with a $30 billion spectrum auction.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2012

Fed Up Entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship as an "alternative investment" may hold growing appeal to institutional investors seeking "growth stories" and diversification options. Will there be battles and skirmishes about. the privacy implications? There always are. Otherwise, what's not to "like?". The numbers don't lie.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 9, 2016

in 2011 to 2.9% This enables the Estonian government not only to foster entrepreneurship in their economy but to generate revenue through the e-card subscriptions. But, as the Singaporean government is slowly realizing, correlation does not mean causation, and digitalization does not mean growth.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2014

They are starting an estimated 1,288 companies each day, up from 602 in 2011-12. Perhaps because the fire of entrepreneurship is still preferable to the frying pan of established corporations. Entrepreneurship has been marketed as a great alternative to the strictures of a traditional job — but that vision is often a fantasy.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

The company has since received a commendation letter from the Nigerian Presidency, and was one of ten companies (out of 3,300 firms) recognized in the 2011 Africa Awards for Entrepreneurship , which was organized by Legatum and Omidyar Network (a foundation started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2016

There’s a great irony when you consider that the “Big Three” cities for entrepreneurship — San Francisco/San Jose, Boston, and New York — are some of the most difficult places in the U.S. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. In 2011, demographer Joel Kotkin developed a list of the U.S.’s

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 26, 2011

National and international corporations that already have a strong company culture and identity are well suited to incorporate the principles of social entrepreneurship into their business operations, or to partner with social enterprises. By leveraging an existing infrastructure and identity, corporations can increase their impact.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

” It is a school of thought now fashionable in entrepreneurship circles. entrepreneurs over a six-year period (2005 to 2011). When asked about an opponent’s plan for their impending fight, former world heavyweight champion Mike Tyson once said: “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

Just one example: Roughly 16% of Stanford’s MBA Class of 2011 chose to start their own companies at graduation, eclipsing the previous high of 12% during the dot-com bubble. Entrepreneurship Managing yourself' That’s great for them. I have a special skill or passion, and I turned it into a business.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2011

Japan is in a state of crisis at present , but its future may be in safe hands judging by the manner in which the country's young people have rallied in the aftermath of the earthquake, the tsunami, and the nuclear power crisis that struck on March 11, 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

(Blue), Australian (Green), and Canada (Red) — show each country's predicted patents per capita three years hence (so the most recent number for 2008 is a prediction for 2011). Joshua Gans will take up the Skoll Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto in July.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2011

2011 will force China Inc. The downside will be an adverse impact on the quality of entrepreneurship, which has propelled many Chinese companies to the top. to come of age, according to my little crystal ball.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

venture-capital investment was for hardware start-ups last year, but that represents a big increase from 1992–2011, when the figure was less than 1% , says the Wall Street Journal. Entrepreneurship' Only 3% of U.S. venture capitalists are taking a rosier view of hardware start-ups.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Even though interest in entrepreneurship is at its highest in India, the country has a nominal seed capital infrastructure. But in 2011, $30 billion was invested by angels and $24 billion by Series A venture capitalists. If one assumes each angel deal was $300,000 per deal, then about 100,000 deals were done in 2011.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Organizations join ANDE because they share the common mission of increasing the prosperity of poor people in emerging markets, believing that supporting entrepreneurship and market-based solutions is part of a sustainable approach to poverty reduction.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

If you want general hustle, do they have a track record of entrepreneurship, or at least holding a series of jobs? As a 2011 graduate working as a receptionist put it in the Times article, "I am over $100,000 in student loan debt right now. For programmers, what are their TopCoder or GitHub scores?

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 7, 2013

A member of the 2011 North American class of Entrepreneurial Winning Women, Gorman says, “This is more than delegating. Delegation Entrepreneurship Managing yourself' This is about building a team that allows you to not think so much about the day-to-day, and a team that comes to you with new ideas.”.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

With the virtual disappearance of major white-collar employers like Eastman Kodak and Westinghouse — once fairly reliable career on-ramps — young talent is focusing on entrepreneurship as a path forward. But unschooled entrepreneurship is unlikely to end happily for most.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

In 2011, GoViral was sold for $97 million, having never taken a single krone or dollar of investment capital. Entrepreneurship Venture capital' The business had been funded and grown entirely by its customers’ cash. In the VC game the very few winners pay for the losers, so most VCs are playing a high-stakes all-or-nothing game.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Today, the Legatum Institute releases its 2011 Index, and we were eager to know what might have changed. It reveals that the components within our Entrepreneurship & Opportunity sub-index are very important for increasing national prosperity. That resource is people and specifically, their optimism regarding entrepreneurship.

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