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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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Research: Cloud Computing Is Helping Smaller, Newer Firms Compete

Harvard Business Review

has slowed , and that in most industries the biggest firms have higher market share than they did a decade ago. By cutting the fixed costs of computing — avoiding the need to hire IT staff, servers, and hardware — even the smallest firm can satisfy large and unexpected computing needs. businesses. Less than 0.5%

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

Harvard Business Review

Political campaigns are marketing campaigns, messages aimed at selling a product. Yet by 2004 its market share was down to 3%. Because more people used PCs, and wrote software for them, they became the default choice for nearly everyone. Bigger marketing budgets may not pay off. Apple learned this the hard way.

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