Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Neal Stephenson’s The Diamond Age inspired Jeff Bezos to create the Kindle ; Sergey Brin mines Stephenson’s even more famous Snow Crash for insights into virtual reality. It forces us to recognize that sometimes imagination is more important than analysis.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

The decision maker at AT&T was CEO Randall Stephenson. The key to winning over a decision maker like Stephenson is working with a champion to provide enough data, analysis, and outside validation to ensure that those who would question his decision see a trail of sound and thoughtful due diligence.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 18, 2018

Randall Stephenson, then CEO of AT&T, famously said , “I told people you weren’t betting on a device. Our analysis also showed that overconfident CEOs are more likely to develop relationships with key suppliers, and that these relationships with suppliers tend to last longer than average.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 14, 2012

As early as 1994 Neal Stephenson was envisioning the era of Big Data, and how it might change the work of a market researcher. Fiction writers who specialize in creating dystopian near-futures seem to put a lot of stock in the potential of customer intelligence. Yes, the tracking and targeting involved can look like science fiction.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

But CEO Randall Stephenson immediately denied both versions, and reiterated that the company will not let go of either CNN or the deal itself, pledging to fight the government if necessary. Posner, who introduced microeconomics to antitrust analysis during the 1970s. Later stories reported it was AT&T that had offered to sell CNN.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 15, 2017

” To be clear, the anti-monopoly New Brandeis School does not suggest or promote unrestricted intervention or the jettisoning of economic analysis in antitrust enforcement. All agree that intervention should be measured to avoid chilling competition, innovation and investment. The question is one of degree.

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