Thu.Jul 14, 2022

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Transforming classroom practices by meeting teachers’ Jobs to Be Done

Christensen Institute

Over the last two and a half years, if there was a glass-half-full way of looking at COVID-19’s effect on education, it was to consider how the challenges created by the pandemic might also catalyze innovation. Remote learning led to substantial investments in devices, software, and connectivity that could serve as basic infrastructure to support innovative approaches to teaching and learning.

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Why Wellspring Chose to Raise Capital in 2022

Wellspring

Today, Wellspring announced a significant capital raise. You can read the press release to learn more about Resurgens , our new growth partners, and the deal itself. In this post, I’d like to focus on the bigger picture — why it made sense to raise a fresh round of capital, why 2022 was the right time, and why I’m deeply excited for Wellspring’s future.

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How the Customer in 9C Saved Continental Airlines from Bankruptcy

Innovation Excellence

GUEST POST from Howard Tiersky When Gordon Bethune took over as CEO of Continental Airlines in 1994, the carrier had just emerged from its second bankruptcy and was headed for their third and potentially final round.

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What Makes Innovation Partnerships Succeed

Harvard Business Review

Collaborations often start with high hopes — then break down. Here’s how to actually make them work.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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How to Define the Right Search Criteria in Emerging Technology Scouting

ITONICS

Which emerging technologies will be game-changers for your industry? Recognizing this early can be a great asset to your business. To adapt to changes in the market, companies must research technological breakthroughs and use them to develop products and services to meet evolving consumer needs.

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How Fair Is Your Workplace?

Harvard Business Review

To shape a more equitable employee experience, leaders should ask themselves these four questions.

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How to Build Confidence About Showing Vulnerability

Harvard Business Review

The best leaders inspire trust by sharing their mistakes.

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13. Lessons from Indiana Jones®

Stephen Shapiro

Tip 13 from Best Practices are Stupid. Here I explore the lessons from one of my favorite movies of all time. In 1989’s “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade,” the nerdy archeology professor Indiana Jones advises students to “forget any ideas you’ve got about lost cities, exotic travel and digging up the world. We do not follow maps to buried treasure, and ‘X’ never, ever marks the spot.”.

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Reparations from France should go to Haitian entrepreneurs, not the government

Christensen Institute

This article was first published by the New York Sun on June 29, 2022. Generations of poor Haitians paid France—its colonizer—roughly $560 million in today’s dollars. According to some estimates, if these funds had stayed in Haiti instead of moving out of the country, the Haitian economy could be eight times larger than its 2020 GDP of roughly $14.5 billion.

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