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Where the Money Is in the Tumblr Deal

Harvard Business Review

Our research (discussed in detail in a 2011 Harvard Business Review article one of us coauthored) distinguished between two basic types of acquisitions. In the first kind, a company acquires another to strengthen its current business model. We call such deals "leverage my business model" (LBM) acquisitions.

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What the EPA’s Clean Power Plan Looks Like in Practice

Harvard Business Review

.” Policies such as the new EPA proposal, which would establish firm limits on carbon pollution from power plants, will only help accelerate these much-needed market innovations. After all, the power sector is already halfway toward meeting its 2030 target of 30% below 2005 CO2 emissions levels. The program delivered $1.6

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

Sue Decker, Yahoo’s former president, describes how the deal came about and what Yahoo learned from doing business in China. At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. In 2005, they launched a U.S.

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The Comcast-Time Warner Merger Is Not a Sign of Strength

Harvard Business Review

For one thing, thanks to a long history of exclusive municipal franchising regulations that didn’t end until 1992, the two companies don’t overlap in any market—TWC customers will become Comcast customers (and get arguably better technology and service in the process), but no local market will see a decline in the number of competitors.

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

Closing the Execution Gap : How Great Leaders and Their Companies Get Results by Richard Lepsinger If an organization can’t execute its plans and initiatives, nothing else matters: not the most solid, well thought-out strategy, not the most innovative business model, not even technological breakthroughs that could transform an industry.

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Why We Shouldn’t Worry About the Declining Number of Public Companies

Harvard Business Review

stock exchanges has declined by almost 50% from its peak in 1996, despite dramatic increase in aggregate market capitalization. All three factors have become more common over time, which we argue stems from firms’ increasing reliance on intangible and knowledge inputs in their business models. stock exchanges.

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