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6 Ways to Keep Good Ideas from Dying at Your Company

Harvard Business Review

business units and functional groups like marketing or human resources set out “challenges” that they’d like employees to work on. In 2014, more than 5000 submissions came in. Venture capitalists meet every Monday to review deals in the pipeline. At the storage and software company EMC Corp.,

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank. Only legal, finance, and human resources still reported back to headquarters. With the filing of Alibaba’s registration statement in early May of 2014, the company is set to tap the U.S. Those issues slowed us down on the product side as well.