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The Way Forward for Samsung, and Innovation

Harvard Business Review

But the gravest concern we've heard, that the ruling creates a legal climate that will stifle innovation, is unfounded. It's a model that works when you're competing to provide a safer car, a faster computer, or a cheaper airline ticket, but it's of little use when the goal is a better user experience.

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How Much Do Companies Really Worry About Climate Change?

Harvard Business Review

Extreme weather brings unpredictable dangers for physical assets or massive disruptions to supply chains (like auto and hard drive companies found out with floods in Thailand in 2011). So are a lighting retrofit, a boiler overhaul, innovation to reduce energy use of your products, and much more. That’s exactly right.