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What Innovators Can Learn From the Spectacular Rise and Crash of Theranos

Innovation Excellence

Including its CEO Elizabeth Holmes Last week in a Silicon Valley courtroom, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was convicted on four counts of fraud in connection with the failed blood-testing company she founded in 2003. The Stanford dropout will … Continue reading →

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Former Mass. governor moves to support employment with college

Christensen Institute

As the pace of technological change accelerates and the half-life of skills continues to shrink, what students must learn is becoming less specifiable, predictable, and verifiable ahead of time. The implications for colleges are many, but one of the clearest is that the importance of learning by doing will continue to elevate in importance.

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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 The eduK platform, which offers professional courses that uses a methodology that helps people learn fast, is reversing this trend. trillion in 2010.

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Sustainable futures based on Shakespeare

Norbert Bol

For that reason allegories can be used as an instrument for learning, because allegories are more to be seen as a figure of speech that convey a deeper meaning and it is up to the reader to understand and assimilate the underlying context. Famous allegories are e.g. Shakespeare is well known for using allegories. . Norbert Bol. Literature.

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Case Studies: Learning from Failure, or Dying from it

Qmarkets

What can we learn from their innovation failures? By the spring of 2003, Amazon was allowing other merchants to sell toys and baby goods, and though Toys R Us won in court, throwing out their deal with Amazon and winning $51 million, the damage was done, and Toys R Us was never able to recover those lost years without a website of their own.

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The History of Coronavirus in Patent Literature

Anaqua

Looking at the levels of activity in this area since 1971, we see a peak of 1,207 patent families mentioning Coronavirus in 2003, the year after the SARS outbreak. To learn more about Anaqua’s AcclaimIP patent landscaping and analytics tool or to request a free trial, visit [link].

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Ideate or Deteriorate – Why Companies Must Learn How To Be Innovative to Achieve Major Growth

Qmarkets

Is innovation a superfluous fad that just won’t go away, or is learning how to be innovative crucial for futureproofing an enterprise? This is a prime example of why, when learning how to be innovative, it's crucial for companies to utilise the knowledge of their employees. So which one is it?