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The Secret to Alibaba’s Culture Is Jack Ma’s Apartment

Harvard Business Review

Jack Ma’s First Day Speech in Alibaba Apartment from Taluswood Films on Vimeo. That choice cuts to the heart of Alibaba, according to Porter Erisman, who served as a vice president at the company from 2000 to 2008, and whose documentary on his time there debuted in 2012. “Alibaba was started in Hupan Garden.

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What We Know, Now, About the Internet’s Disruptive Power

Harvard Business Review

Amid the rubble of the dot-com bust in 2001, Michael Porter weighed in on the question of how to gauge which businesses “active on the internet,” as he put it, were real and which were destined to go the way of Pets.com when their venture funding dried up. It’s still worth a look now.

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