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Enhancing child and family well-being using Family Resource Centers

Christensen Institute

In our latest report, “ From child welfare to well-being: A blueprint for CBOs and government agencies ,” we unveil the business models that enable prevention-oriented CBOs and prevention-enabling government agencies to enhance child and family well-being. Harvard Business School Module Note, August 2009 (revised November 2021).

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Innovative Start-Ups Founded by Women

Destination Innovation

A report by the Kaufmann Foundation found that only 3% of technology start-ups are led by women. It was founded by Jennifer Hyman and Jennifer Fleiss in 2009. Nadine Hachach-Haram. We need more women entrepreneurs. Most of the high-profile role models for start-ups are men – Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs are household names.

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Crowdsourced Innovation: Three Things I Learned

IdeaScale

According to the 2019 Crowdsourced Innovation Report , a company has an average lifespan of 33 years in the Fortune 500 in 1965. In fact, Netflix crowdsourced its innovation process by paying 1 million dollars to the people who figured out how to improve its recommendation algorithm from 2006 to 2009.

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Report Highlights Increased Open Innovation Activity

IdeaConnection

That’s one of the conclusions of the 2016 State of Innovation Report: Disruptive, Game-Changing Innovation by the Intellectual Property & Science business of Thomson Reuters. And it reports that it is in rude health, claiming that 2015 was one of the most active years in history. Open innovation is thriving.

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Why World Water Day should focus on more than just water

Christensen Institute

It’s hard to calculate the actual figure but the fact that more than two billion people today still lack access to water implies that much of the water intervention programs–like mine and those in the report–ultimately fail. . million people since 2009.

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COVID-19: Business R&D Spending Will Fall by at Least 5-6%

Commodore Innovation

If you’re interested in how companies are adjusting future spending plans for the remainder of 2020, sign up below for further information about our forthcoming benchmarking report. Great Recession (late-2007 to mid-2009): R&D spending didn’t decline until 2009 (by 5.2%), but the decline continued into 2010 (0.4%).

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Beyond the profit formula: The business model to drive health

Christensen Institute

In their 2009 HBS Module Note, “What are business models and how are they built?”, Harvard Business School Module Note, August 2009 (revised November 2021). While previous arguments have attributed failure of DOH efforts to incumbent organizations’ lack of planning , that is a misdiagnosis. Christensen and Mark W.