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Why the Future of Tesla May Depend on Knowing What Happened to Billy Durant

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A version of this article appeared in the Harvard Business Review. Sloan Foundation , the Sloan School of Management at MIT , the Sloan program at Stanford , and the Sloan/Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York. Durant died managing a bowling alley in Flint, Michigan, in 1947. There’s the Alfred P.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

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An excellent example of a social enterprise is The Empowerment Plan —an organization that hires people currently living in homeless shelters to create a combination winter coat, sleeping bag, and over-the-shoulder bag, which is then distributed to the homeless of Detroit free of charge. According to the Harvard Business Review, in most U.S.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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New Power: An Interview with Henry Timms

Startup Lessons Learned

And so often, the conversations about how the world was changing were reduced to quite a shallow discussion about technology--it was all something to do with Twitter, or changing tools. What's emerging is the new power world, which is much more about things that are made by participation, about upload, and about distribution models.

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Out of the Crisis #9, the founders of Frontline Foods on the moral imperative to support frontline workers at scale

Startup Lessons Learned

When is our society going to start treating nurses with the respect they're due? New York, of course, being one of the epicenters for the pandemic in our country, but other cities being hit very hard, New Orleans and Detroit, and what's happening in Mississippi right now. I am Eric Ries. Frank Barbieri : It sure is.