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Thoughts That Make You Go Hmmm … on “Good Company”

The Practical Leader

technologies and a corresponding culture of participation and disclosure, whereby millions of people are publishing their experiences and opinions online. .” technologies and a corresponding culture of participation and disclosure, whereby millions of people are publishing their experiences and opinions online.

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How Google Has Changed Management, 10 Years After its IPO

Harvard Business Review

From there, the authors offer advice including building innovation into job descriptions, and trusting users to inform product strategy. Schmidt himself recounted part of his experience at Google in a 2010 article , which describes at length the company’s “quirky” Dutch auction IPO. Business in the age of Google.

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The Best Platforms Are More than Matchmakers

Harvard Business Review

Giving its hosts customized information, insight and advice about pricing their property, Coles observed, would lead to better outcomes for Airbnb’s ecosystems. Which users could become 10%, 50% or 100% more valuable with better information, advice or apps? Improving user capabilities would measurably improve Airbnb efficiencies.

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

Harvard Business Review

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

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Become Your Own Best Gatekeeper

Harvard Business Review

And I recall well, at the start of my career, how flattered I felt to be asked for a meeting or some advice — thrilled to be looked at as enough of an expert to be of help. I'm a huge fan of our technology-enabled, accessible society, in which anyone can reach you with a tweet or find your email address online.

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Grieving for a Colleague: Deep, Silent, and Solitary

Harvard Business Review

The news had just hit that Danny Lewin — the co-founder of Akamai Technologies, its charismatic CTO, a former commando in the Israeli Special Forces, and MIT mathematics genius who led the company from a math class to an IPO and a market cap of $30 billion — had suddenly died. No one was crying, but they wanted to.

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How Singapore Became an Entrepreneurial Hub

Harvard Business Review

Since I had never done venture investing before, I was trying to get advice from as many people as I could. ” In my first year in Singapore we might hear news about a company landing venture funding every few months, and an exit (cashing out either through an IPO or by selling itself to a larger company) every year.