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Big Bets vs. Little Bets and the future of HP

Harvard Business Review

Ned Barnholt is the former CEO of Agilent Technologies, the measurement company, and these days he's one of the more respected executives in Silicon Valley. To borrow a phrase from Silicon Valley thought leader and author Eric Ries , they "achieved a failure." The technology was great. HP rise had been remarkable.

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