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Verizon, the iPhone, and the Power of Second Chances

Harvard Business Review

The Verizon Wireless side of the telecom giant, which is 45 percent owned by Vodafone, is also deepening ties with Google for the Droid and betting on its faster fourth generation (4G) network based on new LTE (long term evolution) technology to leap forward in the wireless marketplace. They make mistakes. They fumble.

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Five Questions Every Leader Should Ask About Organizational Design

Harvard Business Review

Rather it’s an on-going nipping and tucking of organizational resources to achieve both growth and efficiency at multiple levels: the company overall, the operating group level, and even within functional groups like human resources and information technology. Are you competing on the basis of on-going product or technological innovation?

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The New New International Economic Order

Harvard Business Review

There is a much more important change in the global distribution of power underway, and the play for leadership of the World Bank signals that emerging markets will be increasingly bold in asserting their views about the management of the global economy. And apparently not in the fight over leadership of the World Bank.

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What's Wrong With America's Innovation Policies

Harvard Business Review

It isn't producing results in terms of new companies, jobs, or economic growth in general, yet billions more flow into NIH and universities every year. China's brilliant "Fast Follower" innovation policy is generating the biggest transfer of technology in history. global competitiveness. global competitiveness.