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Creating Michelin-star Quality for the Masses

Harvard Business Review

It's a common assumption that offering more features or developing high-quality products and services is expensive, and that the products of these labors can command premiums. At least one Italian entrepreneur is showing that it's possible to meet both criteria in an intensely competitive business: Italian food and wine.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

Sue Decker, Yahoo’s former president, describes how the deal came about and what Yahoo learned from doing business in China. With the ad market under $70 million, many of our local competitors were rapidly experimenting with new types of revenue and business models and were far ahead of us. search engine company Inktomi in 2002.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Since then its stock has more than doubled. billion in revenue.

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18 of the Top 20 Tech Companies Are in the Western U.S. and Eastern China. Can Anywhere Else Catch Up?

Harvard Business Review

By default, the two gold coasts have a self-sustaining edge: They have accumulated massive value, wealth, and power through the winner-take-all economics that govern many digital business models. For the 274 companies started in 2003 or later that have reached unicorn status , half are in the U.S., trillion.