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How Thomson Reuters Is Creating a Culture of Innovation

Harvard Business Review

It’s not easy for big companies to innovate. As Steve Blank, Clay Christensen, and many others have pointed out, once firms reach a certain size, most of their resources (and investment dollars) are rightly devoted to executing and defending their existing business model. global information solutions company.

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How Amazon Trained Its Investors to Behave

Harvard Business Review

In fact, Amazon was only operating at such a high burn rate because it could. Clayton Christensen has long complained that standard financial metrics can be enemies of innovation and growth. Or, when they emphasize earnings, it's in the opposite direction from what Christensen's worried about. Nobody complains.

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How to Succeed in Business by Bundling – and Unbundling

Harvard Business Review

Peter Currie , our CFO, and I were doing it, and I said, “All right, one last question.” And so, ironically, the bundlers of that era were operating probably illegally, in the way that they were forcing the bundle and then price-fixing the bundle. It was our last show and we were in a big hurry to get the plane.

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