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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

He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. He radically transformed the company from a classic conglomerate that did everything to one that focused on its core industrial businesses. He doubled GE’s investment in R&D.