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Old Management Systems Stifle New Business Models

Harvard Business Review

Unlike their industrial peers, managers of asset-light businesses focus little on the balance sheet. Instead, they’re taught to focus on their income statement and optimize their operations around preserving profitability. Its global scale and distribution makes it a critical service vendor for businesses around the world.

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If America Is a Land of Abundance, Why Are We So Divided?

Harvard Business Review

These common examples all embody the us/them architecture--but the divisive framework is so embedded in modern business models that it's difficult to discern. More and more companies embrace consumers as "co-creation" partners in their innovation efforts, instead of as buyers at the end of a value chain.