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What The Economist gets wrong about democracy and development in Latin America

Christensen Institute

Take for example, the 2003 attempted institutional reform in Afghanistan. The way we do it is by fostering more market-creating innovations. Market-creating innovations, such as IguanaFix, can build a sustainable economy and help create stronger institutions. This will ultimately result in better democracies.

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Five Unicorn Scaleup Strategies

Leapfrogging

Unicorns are privately held companies valued at $1 billion or more. I encourage you to get it and embrace these strategies, whether you’re running a startup or in a big company. based software companies started since 2003 and valued at over $1 billion by public or private market investors.

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How President Lula da Silva should help the poor in Brazil this time?

Christensen Institute

When he served as Brazil’s 35th president from 2003 to 2010, the country was experiencing an economic boom. GDP almost quadrupled from $558 billion in 2003 to $2.2 In our paper, Leveraging market-creating innovations to solve Brazil’s education paradox , we highlight two main development strategies, push and pull.

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Nine Short Innovation Lessons from Lego

Destination Innovation

Lego is now revered as one of the most innovative and successful companies in the world. But in 2003 the company was $800m in debt and on the verge of bankruptcy. It is currently rated the number one toy company in the world and the world’s most powerful brand. How Lego became the Apple of Toys – Fast Company.

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Business Model Innovation Basics Series - Part 1: What is a Business Model?

The BMI Lab Blog

However, very few managers are able to explain their company’s business model ad-hoc, and even fewer can define what a business model actually is in general. The number of companies, which have established dedicated business model innovation units and processes is even lower. Thus, it should answer the question ´Who is the customer?´

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Former Mass. governor moves to support employment with college

Christensen Institute

After leaving the Massachusetts governorship in 2003, Swift has dedicated her career to education from K–12 through the workforce. She’s led organizations that range from the edtech company Middlebury Interactive to her most recent work leading the LearnLaunch Institute (where I was chair of the board during her tenure).

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Innovation Lessons from the Master, Steve Jobs

Destination Innovation

Jobs led a company which embodied the combination of art and science. At the age of 21 Jobs founded Apple with Steve Wozniak in order to market the Apple I personal computer. But he had a prickly personality and in 1985 he was forced out of the company in a power struggle. At the time the company was close to bankruptcy.