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Mar 2024
28m 12s

How to Bring Good Ideas to Life: The Pau...

HBR Presents / Brian Kenny
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Harvard Business School professor Frances Frei and Paul English, one of the most imaginative and successful innovators of his generation, discuss how to tell the difference between a good idea and a bad one, the importance of iteration, and taking a systematic (but fast) approach to developing new ideas. 
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