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Innovation Thrives Despite Piracy

The Horizons Tracker

After all, when people could get your core offering for free, not only would that harm your income but it would discourage the industry from producing content and stifle innovation. Research from the University of Southern California explains why piracy wasn’t the death knell of innovation so many feared. Thriving creativity.

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Morning Advantage: Disruptive Innovation Made Easy

Harvard Business Review

The numbers are enough to make the apple pop right out of the marketer's eye. Clearly that's not quite the target market for a new washer and dryer. for 2013, the fourth year in a row of relatively flat growth. PwC says four forces will continue to slow the rise in medical cost trend in 2013: 1. Scientific American).

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Morning Advantage: Disruptive Innovation Made Easy

Harvard Business Review

The numbers are enough to make the apple pop right out of the marketer's eye. Clearly that's not quite the target market for a new washer and dryer. for 2013, the fourth year in a row of relatively flat growth. PwC says four forces will continue to slow the rise in medical cost trend in 2013: 1. Scientific American).

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Why America Is Losing Its Entrepreneurial Edge

Harvard Business Review

financial services sector went from 13,000 of independent banks to half that number, while the top ten banks grew from 20% market share to 60%. As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market. In pharmaceuticals, the largest company, Pfizer, is the result of decades of mergers. In the guitar business , too.

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Despite Dire Predictions, Salespeople Aren’t Going Away

Harvard Business Review

” In the article, a marketing expert explains why societal shifts would render the door-to-door salesman obsolete. Over the years, innovations in distribution, media, and technology have enabled buyers to use non-sales force channels for various steps of their buying journey. ” That 1916 prediction didn’t prove true.

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CEOs Should Get Out of the Saddle Before They’re Pushed Out

Harvard Business Review

Recent events have seen a rash of the departures from large corporates: Steve Ballmer from MicroSoft, Jeremy Levin from Teva Pharmaceutical, and Thorsten Heins from Blackberry. So it’s consistent with market forces. And a 2013 study by Xueming Luo, Vamsi K. Under her reign, on 1 November 2013, it closed at £1,498.00.

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The First Step to Fixing U.S. Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

A few outlier industries (notably pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and computers) prop up the sector’s aggregate performance; most others have experienced flat growth or outright declines in real GDP over the past two decades. But now the situation has reached such a tipping point that larger U.S. manufacturers are taking notice.