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How Google Has Changed Management, 10 Years After its IPO

Harvard Business Review

But back in 2010, Chris Trimble criticized 20% time both for being expensive and for emphasizing ideas over execution. Writing last year, amid reports that the company was ending the policy, Michael Schrage took a slightly different view , arguing that 20% time is great for some employees but not for others. How Google innovates.

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Blinded by Facebook

Harvard Business Review

When big business leaders think about social media they tend to focus on three things: innovative technologies, marketing applications, and IPOs — the three factors that make Facebook and Twitter so hot. In fact, they're taking over what used to be a central function of the downsized news industry: watchdog reporting.

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Angie's List vs. Groupon

Harvard Business Review

The Wall Street Journal reported that their sales were $59 million in 2010 and rose 40% in the first half of 2011, with the company reportedly heading toward an IPO in the near future. Here, the right issue to consider is that the categories Angie's List reports on are not discretionary. Then consider the benefits.

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The Growing Conflict-of-Interest Problem in the U.S. Congress

Harvard Business Review

Similarly, STAT reports conflicts with Rep. We analyzed required public disclosure information about congresspeople’s stock holdings as compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics , a nonpartisan nonprofit, in combination with a sample of S&P 500 performance data from 2005 to 2010. Scott Peters (D-CA).

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

and China take the lead in tech innovation. And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. Investing in innovation capacity. billion in 2014.

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