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HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business: A book review by Bob Morris

February 18, 2017

HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff Harvard Business Review Press (2017) “I’m convinced that about half of what separates the successful entrepreneurs from the non-successful ones is pure perseverance.” Steve Jobs Most of…

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Innovation lessons from Pixar: An interview with Oscar-winning director Brad Bird

January 20, 2017

What does stimulating the creativity of animators have in common with developing new product ideas or technology breakthroughs? A lot. Here is a brief excerpt from an article written by Hayagreeva Rao, Robert Sutton, and Allen P. Webb for the…

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People First Leadership: A book review by Bob Morris

November 22, 2016

People First Leadership: How the Best Leaders Use Culture and Emotion to Drive Unprecedented Results Eduardo P. Braun McGraw Hill Education (October 2016) How and why a leader is anyone who wishes to change reality, transform it, and make it…

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Bernhard Schroeder on “Simply Brilliant”: Part 2 of an interview by Bob Morris

November 13, 2016

Bernhard Schroeder is Director of the Lavin Entrepreneurship Center Programs and oversees all of the center’s undergraduate and graduate internship programs. He is a part-time Clinical Faculty, Entrepreneurship within the College of Business Administration at San Diego State University. Bern…

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Put Your Intuition to Work: A book review by Bob Morris

July 12, 2016

Put Your Intuition to Work: How to Supercharge Your Inner Wisdom to Think Fast and Make Great Decisions Lynn A. Robinson Career Press (July 2016) “Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, film making, and business – everything.” David…

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Design and business: The substance of style

June 25, 2016

“Correlation is not causation, of course, but some of the world’s most successful companies are good at design.” So suggests Bennett Voyles in an article featured by LiveMint, published by HT Media. This company found its beginning in 1924 when…

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Think Simple: A book review by Bob Morris

June 17, 2016

Think Simple: How Smart Leaders Defeat Complexity Ken Segall Penguin/Portfolio, An Imprint of Penguin Random House (June 2016) “Make everything as simple as possible but no simpler.” Albert Einstein Einstein’s admonition helps to create a context for Ken Segall’s brilliant…

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Monetizing Innovation: A book review by Bob Morris

June 15, 2016

Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price Madhavan Ramanujam and Georg Tacke John Wiley & Sons (June 2016) How monetizing the design of new or improved products and/or services will help create or increase demand for…

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Myths and Misconceptions about Innovation

June 13, 2016

In Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price , Madhavan Ramanujam and Georg Tacke assert: “The most successful product innovators we know start by determining what the customer values [verb] and what they are willing to…

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Remembering Andy Grove, Mentor and Defender of Silicon Valley

April 21, 2016

Here is a brief article by Adam Lashinsky for Fortune Magazine in which remembers Andy Grove, one of the most important entrepreneurs throughout U.S. business history. To check out other resources and obtain subscription information, please click here. Photo Credit:…

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