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Surefire Predictions and Why Doomsayers are Wrong

Harvard Business Review

Innovative forms of financing, such as Kickstarter, will continue to grow, also invented by social entrepreneurs. Live performances will fuel economic booms; performers will make more money from merchandise sales at events than from albums, as Jazz Roots founder (and my friend) Larry Rosen observed.

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Surefire Predictions and Why Doomsayers are Wrong

Harvard Business Review

Innovative forms of financing, such as Kickstarter, will continue to grow, also invented by social entrepreneurs. Live performances will fuel economic booms; performers will make more money from merchandise sales at events than from albums, as Jazz Roots founder (and my friend) Larry Rosen observed.

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Many CEOs Aren’t Breakthrough Innovators (and That’s OK)

Harvard Business Review

However, CEOs often don’t have the career background and education that would equip them to personally lead the process of new product development. This would mean, for example, working in R&D to lead pharma innovation, new product development for high tech, and product design or merchandising for fashion retail.

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