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Dan Farber Ignorance as political bliss: The Republican war on social science

Dan Farber, professor of law | 2/26/13 | 4 comments

Several recent posts on the Legal Planet blog have been about the political process, discussing issues like political polarization, congressional deadlock, and special interest groups.  The discipline of political science is in large part the study of how collective decisions get made.

It would seem to be in everyone’s interest to … More >

Steve Blank Blinded by the light — The epiphany

Steve Blank, lecturer, Haas School of Business | 4/3/12 | 3 comments

“Epiphany e·piph·a·ny  noun /iˈpifənē/ :  A moment of sudden revelation or insight.”

We now know how to teach entrepreneurs how to think about business models and use customer development to turn hypotheses into facts. But there is no process to teach how to get an epiphany. We can only try to create the conditions where this might … More >

Steve Blank The government starts an incubator: The NSF Innovation Corps

Steve Blank, lecturer, Haas School of Business | 12/21/11 | 4 comments

Over the last two months the U.S. government has been running one of the most audacious experiments in entrepreneurship since World War II.

They launched an incubator for the top scientists and engineers in the U.S.

This week we saw the results.

63 scientists and engineers in 21 teams made 2,000 customer calls in 8 weeks, … More >

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