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Creating Michelin-star Quality for the Masses

Harvard Business Review

At least one Italian entrepreneur is showing that it's possible to meet both criteria in an intensely competitive business: Italian food and wine. Since it's beginning in 2003, Davide Oldani's Ristorante D'O has managed to stay profitable in a sustained fashion. Why can't more companies do the same?

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The Industries Apple Could Disrupt Next

Harvard Business Review

Most pundits agreed on what was wrong — a lack of breakthrough innovation since the passing of founder Steve Jobs. Apple has seemingly served as an anomaly to the theory of disruptive innovation. When Innovation Is Strategy. in Innovation. Innovation Strategy' And Nielsen has no reason to cede control of it.

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Telecom's Competitive Solution: Outsourcing?

Harvard Business Review

Bharti's innovative business model converted fixed costs in capital expenditure to a variable cost based on usage of capacity. Bharti has enjoyed compounded annual growth in sales revenues of 120% and growth in net profits of 282% per year between 2003 and 2010. The trend is spreading.

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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.

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The Tangled Web of Net Neutrality and Regulation

Harvard Business Review

Even the term “net neutrality” was coined not by an engineer but by a legal academic, in 2003. When a court found in 2010 that the FCC lacked authority to enforce them, the agency formalized them as rules. Since Donald Trump’s election, the rhetoric surrounding net neutrality’s imminent demise has been frenzied.