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Strategy Lessons From Jean Tirole

Harvard Business Review

But the significance of the paper seems less in that offers any definitive answers to how to think about the phenomenon than that it kicked off what is a now a rich (if still not exactly conclusive) literature on what are now also called multi-sided platforms. Corporate finance? That appeared out of nowhere,” says Gans. Since when?

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Making Room for Reflection Is a Strategic Imperative

Harvard Business Review

But nth-hand data is, by definition, an off-the shelf commodity — hence, its often empty of deeper insight. But nth-hand data is, by definition, an off-the shelf commodity — hence, its often empty of deeper insight. What most companies (and economies) dont do is to stop doing — and thats a self-defeating problem.

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What Alan Greenspan Has Learned Since 2008

Harvard Business Review

I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes. Every bubble by definition deflates. It was the form in which the asset was financed. You can spot a bubble.