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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business

And the impact on Manizales’ culture has not gone unnoticed: “Manizales-Más has opened our city to the world,” was how one young university student put it to me. The criticism came quick, but the seed of the new culture had been planted: growth, not start, was the goal. 1 – Quickly demonstrating new growth.

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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business

Over a period of years, every GE senior manager would learn the lean startup methodology, and GE would be the showcase for how modern companies use entrepreneurial management to transform culture and drive long-term growth. Beth Comstock, GE vice chair responsible for creating new businesses, embraced the lean process.