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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

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The U.S. Media’s Problems Are Much Bigger than Fake News and Filter Bubbles

Harvard Business Review

Because more people used PCs, and wrote software for them, they became the default choice for nearly everyone. ” It explains why firms that have anchored their strategies to content have ceded digital leadership to those that have focused on connections. Fixed costs have always been central to the economics of media.

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