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Do Apps Have Social Responsibility?

Harvard Business Review

Andy O''Connell 38 Slides’ Worth What I Wish I Knew Before Pitching LinkedIn to VCs Reid Hoffman The year is 2004. How Hollywood can Capitalize on Piracy MIT Technology Review When the rogue file-sharing site Megaupload was shuttered in 2012, legal online revenue for blockbuster films rose. Just asking.) No surprise there.

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The Secret to Alibaba’s Culture Is Jack Ma’s Apartment

Harvard Business Review

Jack Ma’s First Day Speech in Alibaba Apartment from Taluswood Films on Vimeo. That choice cuts to the heart of Alibaba, according to Porter Erisman, who served as a vice president at the company from 2000 to 2008, and whose documentary on his time there debuted in 2012. “Alibaba was started in Hupan Garden.

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A Lesson In Innovation From The Red Planet

Tanveer Naseer

was the joyous cry that rang out across the central quad at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the night of August 5, 2012. When it came to landing the car-sized rover on Mars in 2012, there simply was no precedent – nothing nearly that big had ever landed there. Two more rovers followed in 2004.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

Think of Kodak, which in the 1990s was the apparently unassailable leader in its market, with 80% market share in its core film business. When Knudstorp took over as CEO in 2004, he quickly settled on a course of action: return the company to its core. By 1993 the company had $1.3 billion in revenue. The company was in free fall.