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012 Assumption hunters at the airport

012 Assumption hunters at the airport

when hidden assumptions conceal hidden value from the investor

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Grant McCracken
Feb 21, 2025
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Several decades ago, a colleague and I, both then teaching at the Harvard Business School, got a call from an a corporate innovator. He asked us to figure out how IBM could create new value for the business traveler.

We went to work. One of our approaches: doing ethnographies at a variety of airports, talking to busin…

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