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http://www.ssireview.org/articles/entry/in_search_of_the_hybrid_ideal

In Search of the Hybrid Ideal

In the first large-scale, quantitative study of nascent social entrepreneurs, researchers from Harvard Business School and Echoing Green examine the rise of hybrid organizations that combine aspects of nonprofits and for-profits and the challenges hybrids face as they attempt to integrate traditionally separate organizational models. (Illustration by Justin Renteria)
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http://www.fastcompany.com/node/1837706/

Harvard Business School For The Facebook Age

Innovation and real startup companies are front and center at the newly re-engineered HBS. The venerable institution hopes to prepare budding entrepreneurs--with inspiration from the one that got away.
http://blogmaverick.com/2012/05/13/the-coming-meltdown-in-college-education-why-the-economy-wont-get-better-any-time-soon/ This is what I see when i think about higher education in this country today:

The Coming Meltdown in College Education & Why The Economy Won’t Get Better Any Time Soon

http://venturebeat.com/2012/05/11/unreasonable-at-sea/ Ahoy there, startups of Silicon Valley and beyond! Unreasonable at Sea wants you to sail around the world on a fancy boat while expanding your business to international shores. Unreasonable at Sea mixes startups, Semester at Sea students, venture capitalists, and seasoned entrepreneur mentors to create a floating incubator.

Yacht Combinator? Step aboard this ship full of startups bound for international waters

1:25 PM Tuesday May 8, 2012 | Comments (2) http://blogs.hbr.org/ashkenas/2012/05/its-time-to-rethink-continuous.html

It's Time to Rethink Continuous Improvement - Ron Ashkenas

Crush the "I'm Not Creative" Barrier - Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregersen, and Clayton M. Christensen

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2012/05/crush_the_im_not_creative_barr.html Jeff Dyer is the Horace Beesley Professor of Strategy at the Marriott School, Brigham Young University; Hal Gregersen is a professor of leadership at INSEAD; Clayton M. Christensen is the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the world’s foremost authority on disruptive innovation.
The Cynefin Framework is central to Cognitive Edge methods and tools. It allows executives to see things from new viewpoints, assimilate complex concepts, and address real-world problems and opportunities.

Brian Vellmure - Google+ - Curious how many of you have used the Cynefin framework to…

https://plus.google.com/110441486439539514702/posts/bF4LJQ31Hc5#110441486439539514702/posts/bF4LJQ31Hc5
This question reflects a painful problem that is common at both small startups and large corporate organizations.

Why We Need Storytellers at the Heart of Product Development | UX Magazine

http://uxmag.com/articles/why-we-need-storytellers-at-the-heart-of-product-development
Why do some nations prosper while others struggle?

The Innovativeness of Nations

http://m.strategy-business.com/article/00100?gko=bb447

P&G Innovates on Razor-Thin Margins - Vijay Govindarajan - Harvard Business Review

Vijay Govindarajan is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He is coauthor of Reverse Innovation (HBR Press, April 2012).
This story appears in the April 23, 2012 issue of FORBES magazine, accompanying the cover story, Inside Amazon’s Idea Machine .

Jeff Bezos's Top 10 Leadership Lessons - Forbes

The idea for the world’s first CT scanner was conceived in 1967 by Godfrey Hounsfield, a scientist at EMI, a British company. However, much to EMI’s dismay, by the time Hounsfield was rewarded for his innovation with the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, the company had ceded almost complete control over the CT scanner market to later entrants GE and Siemens. H.

Knowledge: Why Innovators Don't Always Win

Your organization 8 years from now – Value Creator (BrianVellmure.com)

Wayne Gretzky is by most accounts the greatest hockey player ever.

Brian Vellmure - Google+ - This is a fascinating article that measures communication…

"The most valuable form of communication is face-to-face.