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Why Bitcoin Entrepreneurs Are Begging for More Regulation

Harvard Business Review

In March of 2013, the department of the U.S. Treasury tasked with combating money laundering issued guidance on Bitcoin, defining it as a “decentralized” class of “virtual currency” that, though not equivalent to legal tender, “acts as a substitute for real money”. Finance Government Technology'

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How Drucker Thought About Complexity

Harvard Business Review

In the 1960s and 1970s, he was already anticipating some of the implications of the Big Shift just beginning to emerge: the transition to an information economy, the centrality of knowledge work, and the transformative impact of digital technology on all types of work. Business education Disruptive innovation Managing uncertainty'

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Making Management as Simple as Frisbee

Harvard Business Review

Take Apple and the work it put into building a technology platform on which hundreds of thousands of independent developers could create apps and offer them to Apple''s customers. Continuous innovation is now a requirement for survival. See the chart for a more thorough list of differences.). Keep your gaze on the customers.