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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. Only legal, finance, and human resources still reported back to headquarters.

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4 Business Models for the Data Age

Harvard Business Review

Those with the best data have enjoyed distinct advantages — in commerce, for example, better understanding the market leads to better products offered at better prices, and so forth. My friends in the industry tell me that bogey was met by 2005. But how, and at what price? That’s changing.