Lead on Purpose

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

This disenchantment is painfully clear in the Gallup 2013 State of the American Workplace survey. These employees are costing their employer’s money in lost time and resources. Ken Myers is a father, husband, and entrepreneur. Worse, their frustration is understandable.

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Mills Scofield

JANUARY 12, 2013

My friend, Doug Sundheim’s new book, Taking Smart Risks , is an early winner for 2013 Must Reads. ” For many people, though, “the emotional cost of not risking and having to live with that regret [is] much greater …than any career or financials … costs.”

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Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

Consider Kohl’s, the large retailer, which in 2013 was looking for ways to decrease its operating costs. In the case of Kohl’s, the hypothesis to be tested was straightforward: Opening stores an hour later to reduce operating costs will not lead to a significant drop in sales. Any of these questions can go wrong.

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Strategy Driven

MAY 16, 2014

Even so, for those entrepreneurs in flyover country, our digital world makes it easy for investors to put money into companies they believe in, no matter where they are. Even if investors can now reach entrepreneurs anywhere, the aforementioned ‘home bias’ is a natural occurrence in the public and private securities markets.

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The Empowered Buisness

JULY 6, 2015

Do you know how much money it costs? If you don’t have a team, brainstorm it with a networking group or fellow entrepreneurs. I’m so glad you’re going to be a doctor.”. In contrast, how might Dad respond? “A Are you kidding me? Do you know how many years you have to go to school to become a doctor? Mom likes good things, benefits.

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Skip Prichard

JULY 22, 2019

But without the backing of the great entrepreneur and gifted engineer George Westinghouse, Tesla’s revolutionary inventions would probably have come to nothing.” [3]. In fact, about half of all new ventures created are actually created by hybrid entrepreneurs—individuals who keep their day jobs and start a venture on the side. [5]

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 24, 2013

The result, I think, is a set of ideas that together are important, useful, and original, and that feel like quite an accurate account of the management concerns many of us shared in 2013. American tech entrepreneurs earned some bad press this year, but in HBR, they proved why more established firms should not stop watching them closely.

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Strategy Driven

MARCH 16, 2016

They prove that the most economically disadvantaged people on the planet create a great market for social entrepreneurs – AND provide a terrific testing ground for innovation and cost control. As of February 28, 2013, the company claims: 13,638,438 “lives empowered”. This can be part of your strategy.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

New tools, resources, and intermediaries are allowing a new generation of serious entrepreneurs to begin to bridge the worlds of hacker space and industry. Just as with software 15 years ago, start-up manufacturing is beginning to graduate to the bigger time. ” The rise of hardware startups still has the feel of an insurgency.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

Over the last three weeks I’ve spoken with entrepreneurs, lawyers, VCs, consultants, and bankers about Bitcoin, and through those conversations a clear theme emerged: lack of regulatory certainty is a major factor holding the Bitcoin ecosystem back. In March of 2013, the department of the U.S. In fact, they’d like more of it.

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Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 28, 2012

2013 is days away. Up your caring quotient: Instead of trying to reduce the cost of the sale, increase your level of caring. Become someone that is hard to ignore: If you bring something really relevant AND valuable compared to available alternatives, it will cost them more to ignore you than it costs to engage with you.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2013

For entrepreneurs, then, the challenge is to find an opportunity in an attractive market. The key as an entrepreneur is to try to predict what these are before they are blindingly obvious and there are tons and tons of competitors in the space. And is there a strong fit between the two? Some mega-trends are, well, mega.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 3, 2013

Welcome to the June 3rd, 2013 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! At all costs, avoid "You''re too young to."”. Bernd Geropp from More Leadership presents Three dirty little secrets about being an entrepreneur and running a start-up business. “In You''ve heard of "speed dating"? 30 leadership bloggers in 90 minutes.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Dara Khosrowshahi, the CEO of Uber, the ride-sharing giant, proudly declared on September 10 that “very few brands become verbs” The same week Upwork, a platform for hiring freelancers, filed for an IPO, as did Fiverr , which boasts that it offers a “freelance services marketplace for the lean entrepreneur.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 26, 2014

All of us know that you have to be a little crazy to be an entrepreneur. Accountable Care Organization (ACO) models in both the private and the public sectors are rewarding providers for lowering the overall costs of care and keeping patients healthy. billion in 2013, up 39% from 2012. Entrepreneurship Health Innovation'

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2014

It’s a framework for entrepreneurs, building on “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries. In January 2013, Chip Blankenship, CEO of GE Appliances issued a challenge to the newly formed team: “You’re going to change every part the customer sees. In January 2013 the team came out with a “minimum viable product.”

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2013

Shoplifting is big business, and it costs retailers billions of dollars in profit each year. Turns out Tide is really easy to steal, and it re-sells at a premium, so street entrepreneurs, who are always on the lookout for low risk/high reward steals, have taken to Tide. Hiring Prospects Brighten for 2013 (CIO Insight).

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Nor was Uber alone in realizing that expensive taxi medallions were unnecessary for prebooked trips — a tactic already used by other entrepreneurs in many cities. With these savings, Uber seized a huge cost advantage over taxis and traditional car services. But others did this, too.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2016

In the summer of 2013, Rolling Stone published a long article titled “Goodbye, Miami,” which claimed that climate change will submerge much of the titular city. What value that cannot be protected will be replaced in the form of new business opportunities for entrepreneurs who can design solutions to pressing problems.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

2013 had all the signs of being a comeback year for venture capital. Yet 2013 annual industry performance data from Cambridge Associates shows that venture capital continues to underperform the S&P 500, NASDAQ and Russell 2000. The industry realized its highest returns since the Internet boom.

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Venture Capitalist Asset Management Rate of Return Incentives 18

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2014

But encouraging kids to blow off schoolwork to write apps, or skip college to become entrepreneurs, is like advising them to take their college money and invest it in PowerBall. Facebook had 2,400 employees in 2011; 3,500 in 2012; 4,900 in 2013; and 6,300 today. The message for aspiring entrepreneurs? This is true.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 13, 2015

All will claim to reduce costs and improve quality. But, as Michael Porter and Robert Kaplan of Harvard Business School have argued , we need to examine costs at a more granular level at which clinical outcomes are matched with the business and administrative processes. Measuring Costs and Outcomes in Healthcare. Insight Center.

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Health Care Insurance Price Cost 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

A recent headline, “JCPenney Releases 2013 Sustainability Report,” reads like the punch line to a bad joke. And Coca-Cola’s 5by20 initiative which empowers female entrepreneurs in developing countries to operate neighborhood stores that sell its products and create an upward spiral of economic development.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2016

When they do occur, they usually come from insurgent entrepreneurs who founded companies such as Nest or Netflix (today), or Eastman Kodak or Ford Motor (over a century ago). Since 2013 Schwab has added several new elements of value to its services. “Where’s our iPhone?” ” they wonder.

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Customer Loyalty Loyalty Innovation Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

China leads the world in population, and probably in sheer numbers of entrepreneurs as well, but does it lead the world in innovative dreams? We live in a time when many of the great entrepreneurs are associated with dramatic dreams. So, where are those innovation dreams coming from, and what are they like? So what about China?

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2015

A 2013 survey of more than 123,000 students at 153 colleges showed that more than half experience overwhelming anxiety, and about a third feel intense depression during the school year. A meta-analysis of 213 studies on a wide range of social and emotional learning programs showed similar findings.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

An Economist Intelligence Unit report commissioned by Huawei in 2013 found that “a lack of perceived value” is one of the main things that keeps a lid on digital adoption and usage rates. Costs are low because each school has just one employee, who uses a tablet with tailored content. It opens a new school every 2.5

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

These days, for studying anything related to online, 2013 is ancient history. Scratching our heads, we saw the Census tables showed that general merchandise stores — which is where they code Wal-Mart — had only $88 million in online sales in 2013. So entrepreneurs, investors, and analysts don’t have much to go on.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

According to a Kauffman Foundation study , 72% of entrepreneurs surveyed come from self-described middle class backgrounds, and another 22%reported being from upper lower class backgrounds. The majority of small businesses rely on such loans, and in the fall of 2013 alone, 37% of small businesses applied for credit.

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Technology Banking Class Real Estate 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 6, 2015

Most of the criticism has had to do with the relationship between cost and benefit. To explore this idea of elite degree fatigue — and to figure out what might be driving it — I spoke with entrepreneurs, executives, and hiring managers at a range of tech companies. The college degree has been catching a lot of flak lately.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2016

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. ” But the law of smart vehicles isn’t all reactive.

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Transportation Technology Software Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2018

billion, with the company growing at a compounded annual rate of over 100% between 2013 and 2017. Several well-funded Silicon Valley entrepreneurs — GoPro, 3D Robotics , and Lily — have entered and left the consumer drones market. DJI benefits from the Shenzhen manufacturing ecosystem and produces drones at a very low cost.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 28, 2013

But consider this equally inscrutable language: The value is multiples of EBITDA, assuming the back-office cost synergy targets are achievable. The result is a veteran who has the tools and confidence to immediately contribute, whether as an entrepreneur or in a company. he explains. "So

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 25, 2015

We’ve all heard by now that productivity decreases with overwork, while attrition and health care costs increase. Counsel on Call was worth nearly $50 million as of 2013 , with over 900 lawyers; it serves one-third of the Fortune 100. But that’s just not true. They’ll steal your people – and your business.

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Real Estate Attrition Entrepreneur Business Model 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2014

To identify the labor market prospects of these entrepreneurs, the study looked at how much they made before starting their venture. This indicates that wives who choose to open a firm with their spouse come from a less advantageous labor market position and join the business because the opportunity cost is low.

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Human Capital Entrepreneur Sample Case Study 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Brian Scudamore, the serial entrepreneur at O2E Brands, sets aside all of Monday for thinking and organizing the rest of the week, which is filled with back-to-back meetings. By the end of 2013, emails were reduced by 60%. Holding this time sacred in my schedule despite the deluge of calls, meetings, and emails is essential.”

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 30, 2014

This is a question we face each year at my organization, Echoing Green, when we evaluate thousands of business plans from social entrepreneurs seeking start-up capital and support. And when we asked these entrepreneurs why, some of their reasons were just plain bad. social entrepreneurs now have more options. They are not alone.

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