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Will China Bring Your Firm New Owners, Partners, or Competitors?

Harvard Business Review

You may think this is an issue for tomorrow—when Chinese firms are known for being innovators instead of imitators, and when their overseas investments are not limited to natural resources in Africa and Latin America. In 2010, Chinese firm AVIC Automotive purchased Nexteer for $465 million. and other developed markets? in a big way.

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Many Companies Still Don’t Know How to Compete in the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

In the past, disruption occurred at the level of discrete product and service technologies that competed to offer better value for customers (e.g., Every industry, no matter how traditional — agriculture, automotive, aviation, energy — is being upended by the addition of sensors, internet connectivity, and software.

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If Ford Wants to Beat Tesla, It Needs to Go All In

Harvard Business Review

The auto industry is facing a trio of disruptive technologies: electric batteries, autonomous vehicles, and the mobile phone. The idea is to create a new and separate division that meets competition while ensuring that new innovations are as minimally disruptive (in the old sense of the world) to the core business as possible.