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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. From 2012 to 2015, the number of global corporate venture capital deals almost doubled, and their investments quadrupled, to $29.1 Top startups already have market leading solutions.

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The Truth About How Uber’s App Manages Drivers

Harvard Business Review

The second is a new lawsuit, Meyer v. These cases clearly point to the importance of understanding how platform-employers operate, and how work is structured within semi-automated, algorithmic management systems. Kalanick , which alleges that Uber’s ability to set prices through an algorithm violates antitrust law.