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Sam Ford: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

His 2013 New York University Press book, Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Culture, was co-authored by Henry Jenkins and Joshua Green. The book was named one of the best business books of 2013 by Booz & Co.’s s Strategy+Business Brilliant Mistakes Brooke Manville Bulldog Reporter C.

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Uber Can’t Be Fixed — It’s Time for Regulators to Shut It Down

Harvard Business Review

Yet the company’s mounting scandals reveal something seriously amiss, culminating in last week’s stern report from former U.S. Uber publicists presented the company as the epitome of innovation, styling critics as incumbent puppets stuck in the past. Attorney General Eric Holder.

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Why Tesco’s Strengths Are No Longer Good Enough

Harvard Business Review

If round after round of profit warnings was not enough – group operating profits fell 20% between 2011 and 2013 and are likely to fall another 30% in 2014 — the company recently announced it had overstated its first-half profit by about $400 million. billion in 2013, and operating profits increased 65% to $422 million. billion to $8.6

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The Right and Wrong Ways to Regulate Self-Driving Cars

Harvard Business Review

This means self-driving cars have shifted from a period of wild experimentation directly to market adoption — what Paul Nunes and I describe in our 2013 HBR article as “big bang” disruption. The Stanford Center for Internet and Society keeps an active list of laws proposed, passed, and defeated across the U.S.).

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What Do Millennials Really Want at Work?

Harvard Business Review

.” As Elspeth Reeve wrote in The Atlantic in 2013 “It’s not that people born after 1980 are narcissists, it’s that young people are narcissists, and they get over themselves as they get older.” ” Even the most widely accepted stereotypes about Millennials appear to be suspect.

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We Took a Vote. You're Fired.

Harvard Business Review

But you probably don''t work at Menlo Innovations, where there are no bosses (at least in the traditional sense). growth in digital ads between 2013 and 2014. Ethical Quandaries. Instead, the decision to fire (or hire or promote) someone is based on group consensus. So remember, companies: Not all of you are The Onion.

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How RFID Technology Improves Hospital Care

Harvard Business Review

The project was launched in 2013, and the RFID system was rolled out in stages starting in the summer of 2015. During the first half of 2016, ED-CELL will use it to automate the reporting to government agencies and regulatory bodies of key quality metrics (e.g., It was fully integrated into emergency room operations at St.