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How GE Built an Innovation Lab to Rapidly Prototype Appliances

Harvard Business

Many large companies yearn to rekindle the innovative magic of entrepreneurship, but very few actually succeed. The reasons have been well documented and include: Large, established companies answer to investors who value predictable, consistent financial results, and so are intolerant of the risks inherent in bold innovation.

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3 Reasons Global Firms Should Keep Investing in India

Harvard Business

On the one hand, you have Prime Minister Modi declaring at the 2018 World Economic Forum that India’s economy, already the fifth largest in the world, will double to $5 trillion by 2025. India has been increasing its spending on infrastructure such as airports, new cities, hotels, ports, roads, bridges, hospitals, and power plants.

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9 Sustainable Business Stories That Shaped 2016

Harvard Business

This week, Canada announced it would tax carbon nationally by 2018. In 2016, two dwarf the rest: the election of Donald Trump and significant action on climate change. So let’s focus on these two first, and then run quickly through seven other interesting stories. The early signs from the Trump team are not promising, in my view.

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