ARTICLE LIBRARY
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Articles and Resources
Fast Company
How to Pick Battles on the Path to Grand Innovation
March 3, 2010
How does an organization create breakthrough performance time after time? How does a company develop meaningful innovations that work on many levels for customers, for society, for the planet? >>
Fast Company
Switch: Don't Solve Problems - Copy Success
February 1, 2010
An exclusive book excerpt by Fast Company columnists Chip Heath and Dan Heath, best-selling authors of Made to Stick. Find a bright spot and clone it. That's the first step to fixing everything from addiction to corporate malaise to malnutrition. A problem may look hopelessly complex. But there's a game plan that can yield movement on even the toughest issues. And it starts with locating a bright spot - a ray of hope. >>
Fast Company
Why You Should Start a Company in... New York
January 19, 2010
It used to be, if you were serious about starting a tech company, you went to Silicon Valley. But emerging entrepreneurial hubs around the country are giving startup aspirants options. In this series, we talk to leading figures in those communities about what makes them tick. New York City is big, buzzing--and good for startups? Fred Wilson, a venture capitalist at Union Square Ventures, thinks so. He should know: Wilson's firm has backed brand-name, New York-based startups like social organizers Meetup, and he put his own money into Wallstrip, which produces business news videos, and which was sold to CBS for $5 million in 2007. >>
Business Traveller
November 2009
Although the British capital has long been a launch pad for American companies looking to establish a European presence, business opportunities in London have never been as plentiful as they are now--in the run-up to the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The weak sterling, combined with record-low property prices and a slew of other infrastructure development projects, has also provided extra incentive for U.S. businesses considering a London location. >>
Business Traveller
FACE TIME - EVA LEONARD REPORTS ON BRITISH AIRWAYS' FACE OF OPPORTUNITY CONTEST
October 2009
The networking began in the departure lounge, and quickly escalated, as the winners of British Airways' Face of Opportunity contest boarded, and filled, the special BA charter flight from JFK to Heathrow on September 15, 2009. The first phase of the contest gave U.S. entrepreneurs the opportunity to win tickets on British Airways by penning essays that described how the tickets would benefit their businesses. The competition sprang from a survey BA commissioned of Harvard Business Review readers to gauge perceptions within the international business community about the importance of face-to-face meetings. >>
