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How to Understand the EU-U.S. Digital Divide

Harvard Business Review

Until now, the EU had hoped to drive down prices for DSL-based Internet services by forcing network providers to open their facilities at discounted prices to new entrants. and EU policy on their five most relevant characteristics — investment, availability, competition, adoption and price.

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What Initial Coin Offerings Are, and Why VC Firms Care

Harvard Business Review

Also known as “token sales,” this new fundraising phenomenon is being fueled by a convergence of blockchain technology, new wealth, clever entrepreneurs, and crypto-investors who are backing blockchain-fueled ideas. How technology is transforming transactions. Insight Center. Business in the Era of Blockchain.

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Why Social Ventures Need Systems Thinking

Harvard Business Review

Thanks to the pace of change in information technology over the last quarter century, we have been conditioned to believe that a single innovative company driven by a visionary entrepreneur can change the world. Marwell and his team also pressed the FCC to be more transparent with data about connectivity and pricing.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

The prizes were awarded “for their empirical analysis of asset prices,” but what the three had been doing looked from the outside less like a common endeavor than a not-all-that-coherent argument. So I wanted to see if Campbell could make sense of the prizes and the current state of academic knowledge about asset prices.

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What’s That You’re Calling a Bubble?

Harvard Business Review

Here’s what he told Kestenbaum: “If you interpret the word ‘bubble’ to mean, ‘I can predict when prices are gonna go down,’ you can’t do it.”. Fama is surely right that nobody can reliably predict exactly when prices are gonna go down. They are, as paraphrased by Kestenbaum: Rapidly increasing prices. That’s pretty good.

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Don’t Write Off the (Western) Focused Firm Yet

Harvard Business Review

In his article “ Why Conglomerates Thrive (Outside the U.S.) ” in the December 2013 issue of the Harvard Business Review , J. Subsequently they become more knowledge-based, as you share technologies, brands and customer intelligence. Given the still-prevailing “conglomerate discount” Western firms are subject to (i.e.,

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5 Ways the Best Companies Close the Strategy-Execution Gap

Harvard Business Review

Take Dell Technologies, for example. Following the company’s go-private transaction in October 2013 , Dell put in place new models for strategy development, resource allocation, and performance management. Webvan promised to deliver the best quality groceries at the cheapest price by the click of a button.