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For Some Platforms, Network Effects Are No Match for Local Know-How

Harvard Business Review

On March 25 mighty Uber bowed out of Southeast Asia by selling its operation in several countries to local rival Grab. Grab, which launched its service in 2012 with 40 drivers in Malaysia, came late to the ride-hailing game, only after Uber had established a formidable position in the United States.

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How Google Has Changed Management, 10 Years After its IPO

Harvard Business Review

To do so, it had to come up with a brand of management all its own, centered around “people analytics,” a quantitative approach to hiring and operations. Earlier this year, Google’s SVP of People Operations, Laszlo Bock, wrote about its latest “people analytics” experiment. How Google innovates.

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Jeff Bezos Brings His Low-Margin Ways to Newspapers

Harvard Business Review

Yes, his site was definitely taking classified advertising away from papers, he would say. But when disruptive innovation threatens to breach a moat, high-margin companies usually find themselves especially ill-prepared to fight back. The Washington Post operated at a 9.2% Advertising Media Strategy' Scripps 6.9%

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The AT&T Ruling Shows That U.S. Regulators Don?t Understand Media?s Present ? or Future

Harvard Business Review

Or had a decade of disruptive innovation in interactive, internet-based video thoroughly altered the competitive landscape, largely leaving the incumbents behind? Generally, these mergers create opportunities for operating efficiencies and innovative new products and services with the combined assets of the merging companies.

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Companies Should Understand Where Cybercrime Thrives

Harvard Business Review

Because of the changing and innovative methods of attack being used against them, it is of the utmost importance that they constantly refine their knowledge of the particular enemies they face. billion has been hacked from the Boleto Bancário, a payment method managed by the Brazilian Federation of Banks, since 2012.

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Recruiting Strategies for a Tight Talent Market

Harvard Business Review

Following are three such innovative approaches for connecting with top talent. ” Such innovative solutions have paid off: Fortune magazine recently named Highfive to its list of the 10 Best Small Workplaces in Technology. In GE’s recent recruitment advertising campaign “What’s the Matter with Owen?”

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Are Apple’s Patent Wars a Marketing Strategy?

Harvard Business Review

Despite the technical nature of these innovations, there are a few broad managerial lessons that have emerged from this prominent patent case. How much would it cost to have similar media coverage through a traditional advertising campaign? AdvertisingAge reports that in 2012, Samsung increased its U.S.