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Many Companies Still Don’t Know How to Compete in the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

Kodak accepted the pain of shuttering plants and laying off tens of thousands of film-factory workers. It dominated the ultra-profitable, digital-photo-kiosk market, even pushing archrival Fuji out of Walgreens’s retail-pharmacy juggernaut. It made huge investments in new technology, new plant, and new personnel. 3 globally).

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The Next Frontier of Judgment - Across Enterprises

Harvard Business Review

The story, which apparently has echoes in some other school districts around the country, is but one more salvo in the wars of educational reform (recently depicted in the film Waiting for Superman — dont miss it).

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The Costs of India’s Annual Budget Guessing Game

Harvard Business Review

Every February, businesses in India wait with bated breath for the country’s finance minister to announce the Union Budget. “One of the great things about India is its ability to over-celebrate everything from weddings to rain to the latest Rajinikanth film. Will taxes go up or down? Will new concessions be announced?