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Joint Ventures Reduce the Risk of Major Capital Investments

Harvard Business Review

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. For example, Lycamobile, a big mobile VNO, focuses on expatriate communities looking for low-cost international pay-as-you-go calls in 19 countries.

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Old Management Systems Stifle New Business Models

Harvard Business Review

Ask anyone in technology. We’ll also offer some examples of how digitally native businesses have addressed these challenges. To adjust for these differences, managers of capital-intensive businesses have developed all sorts of tools and heuristics to help ensure that they’re building their balance sheets in the right way.

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Use Co-opetition to Build New Lines of Revenue

Harvard Business Review

Examples of high-profile failed business collaborations are everywhere. The way forward is co-opetition, in which entities in the same industries act with what everyone recognizes as partial congruence of interests. There [are] lots of co-opetitions.”. As management professors Adam M. Brandbenburger and Barry J.