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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. They used new technology to hammer ad-supported media. Some new matchmakers do send traditional industries into a tailspin. 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. This healthy, innovative sector holds out vast promise, but missteps now could cost the United States its lead.

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Four Winning Lessons from the Super Bowl

Harvard Business Review

It is also a great American export, being one of the most-watched sports activities globally, perhaps number two in the world. A virtue that will be tested this off season as the league and the players' union try to hammer out a new collective bargaining agreement.) million viewers. Here are my favorite 4 quarters of ideas.

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Do Financial Regulators Have Principles?

Harvard Business Review

That notwithstanding, the reactions by regulators have in large part been minor wrist-slaps of the most egregious offenses and an assumption that these offenses were the product of rogue employees; not a logical extension of firm or even industry culture. NFL fans collectively gasped when the hammer came down. It is pretty pathetic.

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A Great Negotiator’s Essential Advice

Harvard Business Review

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.

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The Great Collision

Harvard Business Review

What I'd say "we" want is to escape the toxic tradeoffs of the industrial age — now savage dilemmas, choices between bad alternatives, that drive more and more of us into a sense of crisis, leave us feeling lost and unmoored in the human world. The funny thing is, the world has made explosive jumps forward to increased prosperity.

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Why Rational People Can’t Succeed as Economic Forecasters

Harvard Business Review

Bullock and Warren Persons of the Harvard Economic Service, who are almost completely forgotten now but briefly wielded global influence. Friedman: There is a lot of failure in my book, but I think forecasting is a very maligned industry. What follows are edited excerpts from that and a post-Ideacast conversation. Who’s your favorite?