Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

He had grown up in northwestern Germany, where his father owned mills that heated small amounts of charcoal and iron together to make steel that could be hammered and sharpened into knife blades. Their biggest customers were blacksmiths who hammered a few inches of heated iron bar into a horseshoe or a hinge. Innovation Technology'

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2013

Avis has taken an interesting (and bold) step by acquiring Zipcar, absorbing an innovative but struggling competitor at what is likely to be seen as a bargain price while acquiring a small but desirable customer base and gaining a foothold in the rapidly growing world of collaborative consumption.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 11, 2014

Don't Drink Your Own Kool-Aid A Broken Place: The Spectacular Failure of the Start-Up that Was Going to Change the World Fast Company Better Place was the car-battery start-up that was going to revolutionize transportation until it didn''t. Or floating office buildings in Miami? How about artificial islands in other low-lying U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 2, 2016

There’s also a saying in China: “The nail that sticks up is the nail that gets hammered down.” You could certainly apply that to the fateful photograph of Xi Jinping and the top technology CEOs — the one where Kalanick is out of the picture. ” Here is the takeaway.

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