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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. “I Corporate finance? That appeared out of nowhere,” says Gans. Since when?

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Creating a Future for (American) Cleantech

Harvard Business Review

Demand response, grid management, solar financing and installation, and electric vehicle infrastructure companies might fit this bill. A focused effort to set national guidelines for taxation, grants, definitions, and so on would provide a more stable foundation for American innovators.

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Ratings Agencies Are the Darnedest Things

Harvard Business Review

And since conventional wisdom in investing by definition almost always ends up being wrong, the agencies have a long history of not just shutting the barn door after the horse has bolted, but shutting it after an entire herd of horses has bolted, eaten all the grass in three counties, and jumped in your swimming pool.

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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.