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The Businesses That Platforms Are Actually Disrupting

Harvard Business Review

Uber’s global assault on the taxi industry is well known. All but one of these new matchmakers directly disrupted an existing platform industry. Microsoft Windows, for example, has been the dominant platform for users, developers, and hardware makers for more than 25 years. Platforms are all the rage these days.

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Is America Losing Its Edge in Clean-Energy Tech?

Harvard Business Review

In just the past few years, there has been a global boom in the wind and solar industries, with wind power's generating capacity expanding dramatically and companies competing to offer free solar panels to households. But with other countries working hard to develop their own clean technologies, the U.S.

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A Great Negotiator’s Essential Advice

Harvard Business Review

Develop the facts of the case jointly with your counterparts. For example, a critical and contentious issue in the Law of the Sea talks involved the economic and technical aspects of an emerging industry that would mine deep seabed “nodules” made of copper, cobalt, nickel, and manganese. Negotiation is not usually an individual sport.

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Why We Need To Disseminate Innovation To Overcome The Productivity Paradox

The Horizons Tracker

It’s an argument that economists such as Robert Gordon believe carries little weight, and the problem is not so much that the various benefits provided by the technologies of the 4th industrial revolution cannot be captured, but that the technologies themselves are not utilized enough. Support to scale up, not just to start up.

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Green Police

Chris Brady

Way #2: Audi agreed with the stance that would require governmentally enforced global eco-wacko-ism and thought it was funny to poke fun at people who don't share the extreme "granola" viewpoint.  Government is like a sledge hammer. I am okay with this view, though the imagery was still very scary.

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Big-Project Engineers Have to Deal with Too Much Red Tape

Harvard Business Review

Nineteen days later, as rescue crews grew desperate, a 24-year-old field engineer named Igor Proestakis decided to travel to the site with what he hoped was a breakthrough idea: using a particular drilling technology, called cluster hammers, to cut through the collapsed rock. An inability to easily determine the value of ideas.

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The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company

Harvard Business Review

Within any industry, mental models tend to converge over time. In their quest to upend industry rules, they learn how to distinguish “immutable laws” from “ingrained beliefs.” In our experience, it can take several months for a company to hammer out its defini­tion of innovation.