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What Uber’s China Deal Says About the Limits of Platforms

Harvard Business Review

Rather than rehashing these points, I want to take a broader perspective and use the Uber-Didi deal to reflect more broadly on platform companies and globalization. Platforms are supposed to enable rapid, asset-light globalization. Are there really global network economies?

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The Art of HR: Building REAL Social Networks

LDRLB

In today’s networked economy, when a person needs a realtor for example, they will look to their social network first, and will most likely give their business to someone in their social network, or someone recommended by their social network. No amount of advertising can replace the recommendation of a friend.