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

Harvard Business Review

stock exchanges has declined by almost 50% from its peak in 1996, despite dramatic increase in aggregate market capitalization. firms gravitate towards digital strategies, firms have less need for elaborate finance, marketing, production, distribution, accounting, and human resource departments. stock exchanges.

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Blockbuster Becomes a Casualty of Big Bang Disruption

Harvard Business Review

DISH Networks, the owners since 2011 of video rental giant Blockbuster, announced Wednesday the shuttering of all remaining company-owned retail locations and of Blockbuster’s DVD-by-mail service. As recently as 2002, the company had a market value of $5 billion. In doing so, they systematically undervalue their own intangible assets.

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Filing for a Patent Versus Keeping Your Invention a Trade Secret

Harvard Business Review

For many years, beginning in 1942, Premarin was the only hormone replacement therapy drug on the market derived from a natural source. A series of patents were issued on the drug in the 1940s, but long after they had expired, there were still no generic competitors on the market. Such was not the case.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

“How long does it take for her to interact with a market that isn’t nearly monopolized?” In 2011, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen declared that “software is eating the world.” Walmart went from a 3% share of the general merchandise retail market in 1982 to over 50% today. IT Does Matter.