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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2017

He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. Innovation at GE was on a roll. Since then Flannery has replaced Immelt’s vice chairs responsible for innovation. He doubled GE’s investment in R&D. Then it wasn’t.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. That’s not how Vox Media does it. Patents and copyright also make it harder for software innovations to spread to other companies, as do noncompete agreements that keep employees from easily switching jobs. Architectural Innovation.

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