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Social Innovation: Innovation for the Good of Us All

Bill Fischer

So says28-year-old Cloudera founder, early Facebook veteranand one of Bloomberg BusinessWeek's "Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs" in 2010, Jeff Hammerbacher, in a refreshing insight about the present state of innovation. "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.That sucks."

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The Detriments of a Command-and-Control Culture and the Power of Design Thinking

Tullio Siragusa

Eventually, Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy in 2010, while Netflix grew to become a streaming giant. Despite having the opportunity to purchase Netflix in its early days, the rigid command-and-control culture prevented Blockbuster from taking this risk.