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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 17 – Organizational Design – Safi Bahcall

Steve Blank

Joe Felter , Raj Shah and I designed a class to examine the new military systems, operational concepts and doctrines that will emerge from 21st century technologies – Space, Cyber, AI & Machine Learning and Autonomy. When they did their first partnership with IBM, they had just 32 employees. This was our next -to-last class.

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Episode 54: Business Synchronization and Profitability Antoine Gerschel

Mike Michalowicz

Before starting “Teams of Distinction”, Antoine has had multiple corporate and entrepreneurial leadership positions, including being the head of global leadership development at Sanofi-Aventis, and the COO of a learning technology start-up. Show Quotes . A common short term objective for the whole team rather than one person. Show Links.

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Brexit and Financial Services – What Do We Know So Far?

The Startup Magazine

The cloud surrounding the operational strategies of the financial hub could mean that firms begin to move their operations out of the City. This has already been proven to work, having already been executed in Switzerland.

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Innovation Outposts in Silicon Valley – Going to Where the Action Is

Steve Blank

They helped to globalize their innovation cycle and tap foreign expertise and resources. Other companies operating in small markets with little R&D resources in their home country (ABB, Novartis and Hoffmann-La Roche in Switzerland, Philips in the Netherlands and Ericsson in Sweden) pursued R&D outside their home country by necessity.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter June 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

The Bank of Israel played an important role guarding the Israeli economy from the effects of the global financial crisis. The IMD, which is a leading business school located in Lausanne, Switzerland, examines the level of developed nations’ competitiveness based on some 330 different parameters. citations per paper.