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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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A Lesson In Innovation From The Red Planet

Tanveer Naseer

But Rob Manning, the chief engineer on Pathfinder, and his small team of young, ambitious engineers managed to get a sign-off from NASA’s chief, with a chilling admonition to not fail. Then, like some nightmarish B-grade horror film, the airbags inflated instantly, looking like an oversized microbial infection.

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The Faustian Bargain of Online Services

Harvard Business Review

Three years after I wrote an article on the Athens 2004 wiretapping case, which involved Greek government officials, I found somebody snooping on my own email as I served the next Greek administration. For the convenience of using an online service that we don''t have to manage, we trade our privacy and risk the confidentiality of our data.

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How to Manage Multiple Partnerships

Harvard Business Review

The key is to manage your multiple partners and not let your relationships run wild. Their exclusive agreement had been launched in the go-go year of 2000, but by 2004 it had landed in court. Global airlines manage their multi-partner alliances carefully to avoid duplicating routes. Then we learn a lot from the proceedings.

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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 a company is in free fall, it makes sense to replace the management team, for all sorts of reasons. Thiry immediately replaced most of the management team. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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Have Our Attitudes About Sexual Harassment Really Changed?

Harvard Business Review

The self-congratulatory consensus seems to be that things are different now than they were in 2004, the last time O’Reilly faced a major uproar over his conduct with a coworker. But the most common, and the most general, perspective is that life in corporate America has changed.

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