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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. The idea was simple: Combine the best of both companies into the new Yahoo China, which was projected to generate more than $25 million in revenue in 2004.

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Preview Thursday: Untangling the USA: The Cost of Complexity and What Can Be Done About It

Lead Change Blog

today, where complexity is piled upon complexity in a number of critical sectors, such as health care, energy, finance, and government. The increased role of finance in our economy. Wholesale changes must be contemplated. This is particularly true in the U.S.A Government. Social programs. It was a complex path as well.

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