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Collaboration as an Intangible Asset

Harvard Business Review

So it is with most breakthrough innovations and banner financial years. Interestingly, intangible assets are all the rage these days on Wall Street. There is no line on the balance sheet for "ability to innovate" or "skill at managing brand." If ego and time allow, the list can be quite long.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. The business model was to write the software and then sell licenses to publishers. Vox does license its software to some other companies (so far, mostly non-competitors), but it is itself a publisher. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images.