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The Real Secret to Thriving Amid Disruptive Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Then Burda and Sulzberger leave the stage and are replaced by a panel featuring a couple of media executives plus Google's Nikesh Arora (who I guess is a media executive too), LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, and venture capitalist (and Facebook investor) Jim Breyer. How do you survive such a seemingly unending series of waves?

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How Corporate HQ Can Get More from Innovation Outposts

Harvard Business Review

Clay Christensen's landmark theory -- in under two minutes. They received generous expat remuneration packages and the tremendous opportunity to create their own social capital by meeting entrepreneurs and venture capitalists and being exposed to the frontier of ideas and technologies. Related Video.

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How to Succeed in Business by Bundling – and Unbundling

Harvard Business Review

It’s a line that venture capitalist and Internet pioneer Marc Andreessen has trotted out a few times lately, attributing it to his former colleague Jim Barksdale. 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.

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