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Boards Must Be More Combative

Harvard Business Review

With technology and business model cycles becoming shorter and companies facing unrelenting pressure to innovate or suffer the consequences, more and more boards need to focus on the second of these roles. Confront Unwelcome News and Trends. In September 2010 Blockbuster filed for bankruptcy protection.

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Telecom's Competitive Solution: Outsourcing?

Harvard Business Review

The company's core competency is branding and identifying customer pain points. Bharti's innovative business model converted fixed costs in capital expenditure to a variable cost based on usage of capacity. Its market cap has steadily grown over the same period and stood at around US$30 billion as of 2010. In the U.S.,