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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

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. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

2 (2004): 349–399. Joel Podolny, former head of Apple’s human resources, calls this tendency of our networks to evolve more slowly than our jobs “ network lag.” Get in touch with a venture capitalist. 3 (2000): 425–455. Start a LinkedIn or Facebook group. Learn from your students.

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