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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. By mid-2004, however, the operation was mired in conflict over control and differences in management style. On the finance and deal side, we also felt a strong kinship with Tsai.

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5 Questions That Will Help You Stay Ahead of Your Disruptors

Harvard Business Review

They see disrupted incumbents from retail, finance, health care, transportation, professional services, and manufacturing requiring radical restructuring of assets, productivity , and innovation. How best to draw actionable inspiration from Grove?

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What Happened When Linkin Park Asked Harvard for Help with Its Business Model

Harvard Business Review

The band was distributing its self-produced first album, having created buzz for it in online forums and chat rooms and building a community there (this was several years before Facebook and Twitter transformed social media). I had experience in marketing, business, and finance — all of it outside the traditional music business.