Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

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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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Collectively, they're spawning a range of efficient new "as-a-service" business models in industries as diverse as accommodation, transportation, household appliances, and high-end clothing. Led by the writings of Michael Hammer and Tom Davenport , firms realized that they didn't need to organize work the way they used to.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

Last September some of the world’s foremost technology industry leaders met in Seattle with Xi Jinping, president of China. The nationalization of industry regulation was bad news for a startup that depended on local variance and gray zones. In a group photograph, 30 CEOs with a combined market capitalization of $2.5

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 9, 2012

We want education, healthcare, and transportation that works — but we're reluctant to pay the costs of these public goods. The funny thing is, the world has made explosive jumps forward to increased prosperity. When it comes to the bare-minimum building blocks of a functioning society, they're someone else's responsibility.

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