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The Industrial Revolution That Never Was

Harvard Business Review

Every schoolchild learns that the industrial revolution began in England. Forests have been felled to demonstrate why England, and only England, had the culture and institutions to be the birthplace of modern industrial capitalism in the late 1700s. This was by any measure a primitive industry.

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The Real Reason Uber Is Giving Up in China

Harvard Business Review

Last September some of the world’s foremost technology industry leaders met in Seattle with Xi Jinping, president of China. On Monday Uber said that it is selling its operation in China to a rival Chinese ride-sharing company whose CEO was in that foreshadowing photo. trillion smiled for the camera alongside the Chinese leader.