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Despite Dire Predictions, Salespeople Aren’t Going Away

Harvard Business Review

Fast forward to 2015. Forrester Research predicted that one million B2B salespeople will become obsolete by 2020, lost to e-commerce. Will there really be fewer B2B salespeople in 2020? Today, buyers increasingly use the web to evaluate purchase options in both B2C and B2B markets. Is this another doomed prediction?

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What Big Companies Can Learn from the Success of the Unicorns

Harvard Business Review

HelloFresh has also had impressive growth rates, with revenues reaching about $300 million in 2015, a huge increase from its $3 million in 2012. Founded in 2015 and now valued more than $18 billion, it raised $3.3 Moreover, the innovations lying at the heart of the unicorns’ success stories are digital innovations.

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The Best Retailers Combine Bricks and Clicks

Harvard Business Review

percent between the first quarter of 2015 and the first quarter of 2016. percent of retail sales shifted from offline to online between the beginning of 2015 and 2016. Creative retailers are using the new technologies to innovate just about everything stores do from managing inventory, to marketing, to getting paid.

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How the Philippines Became Tech Startups’ New Source for Talent

Harvard Business Review

So far, 2015 has produced 30 unicorns. Today, the mainstream appeal of Silicon Valley is turning young Filipino workers who might have been satisfied with a call center job a decade ago into a creative and entrepreneurial class seeking a deeper connection with innovation-driven and mission-focused companies.

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What Western Companies Need to Know About Partnering with Startups in India and China

Harvard Business Review

While there is no doubt an intent to strengthen India’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, its state support is more limited and less sophisticated than China’s in addressing the voids that impede innovation and entrepreneurship. Align partner programs with national priorities. Leverage local government policy efforts.