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Alphabet Isn’t a Typical Conglomerate

Harvard Business Review

Its creation marks the beginning of the end of the e-commerce era defined by browsers, search, maps, and apps and monetized through advertising and the beginning of the next arc of digital transformation of industries (automotive, health care, and others) propelled by the combination of human minds and powerful machines.

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Innovation Is as Much About Finding Partners as Building Products

Harvard Business Review

A123 Systems promised to be a clean tech success with a soaring IPO in 2009. and shifts its local focus to engineering and testing. The grow-at-all-costs, move-fast-and-break-things mentality lauded in Silicon Valley can put lives at stake in the healthcare or automotive industries. How do we get there?