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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style. Zhou reportedly felt that the original Yahoos were overpaid and lazy, whereas the Yahoo team felt bullied and believed Zhou wasn’t focused on the Yahoo operations. Those issues slowed us down on the product side as well.

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

Harvard Business Review

Emerging digital firms compete with knowledge, strategy, and expert human capital, attacking even the largest established firms. They operate as lean organizations, using cloud and internet-based infrastructure, and launch and distribute products more quickly than did firms that competed with factories, warehouses, inventories, and suppliers.

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