Irving Wladawsky-Berger
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Month: February 2008
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(Just about) All Innovation is Local
2 comments on (Just about) All Innovation is LocalAt an innovation conference in Mexico in November of 2006, the Colombian journalist Alejandro Santos reminded us, in his eloquent summary, of the advice that the great Leo Tolstoy gave to prospective writers: "Describe your village, and you will be universal." Santos illustrated Tolstoy’s maxim with the Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez, winner of the…
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The ongoing election season in the US has been fascinating. We have seen the candidates now come down pretty much to John McCain for the Republicans, and Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for the Democrats – all, I must say, first-rate candidates. I seldom judge candidates on their position on any one issue. Rather, I…
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I recently gave several talks on Technology-based Business Innovation that were based on the graduate seminar I taught at MIT last semester. Teaching a new graduate course forces you to think really hard about what it is you want to communicate. Trying to compress the content of thirteen, three-hour seminars into a one-hour talk forces…
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The January 19th issue of The Economist has a special report on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). "Corporate social responsibility, once a do-gooding sideshow, is now seen as mainstream," the report starts out saying. "Why the boom?" it later asks and proceeds to answer: "For a number of reasons, companies are having to work harder to…