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Possibility Maximizer: Fresh Milk Newsletter From Contented Cows

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What Motivates Gig Economy Workers

Harvard Business Review

For example, one driver I interviewed, Nathan*, is in his late 60s and works as a licensed psychotherapist in Los Angeles. rate cuts) that prompt strikes and protests from drivers who rely on Uber as a primary source of their household income. On weekends when he’s not working, he drives 6-12 hours for Lyft. ” he asked.

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The Real Reasons Companies Are So Focused on the Short Term

Harvard Business Review

The shift in patenting policy was not to protect innovations, but rather to license them and/or to use them as chips to gain access to other firms’ technology. The shift in patenting policy was not to protect innovations, but rather to license them and/or to use them as chips to gain access to other firms’ technology.

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Corporate Inequality Is the Defining Fact of Business Today

Harvard Business Review

Salvanes of the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration reported that the productivity gap between firms had risen in the UK between 1984 and 2001, and that this phenomenon was linked to income inequality. The competition story revolves around digital technology. Two things happened in the intervening years.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.” ” Carr distinguished between proprietary technologies and “infrastructural” ones.