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Don’t Try to Be a Publisher and a Platform at the Same Time

Harvard Business Review

As more platishers mature, they may find themselves facing similar conundrums. One reason Kickstarter outstripped its competitors was its well-curated selection of genuinely cool projects. As they lower their safeguards to attract more users, platishers enter a legal and ethical gray area.

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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. The forces of lawmaking, jurisprudence and, yes, ethics bring about sufficient transparency, market efficiency and fair business behavior for the conglomerate not to be worth its salt.