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Why Leaders Are Still So Hesitant to Invest in New Business Models

Harvard Business Review

More troubling, our own research shows that even when business leaders are proactive resource allocators, they are still hesitant to invest in new business models. Further, it simpler and less risky for managers tend to stick closely to the previous year’s budget. How much is changing?

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Our research shows that companies with platform- and network-based business models are exponentially better at creating value. Building a successful platform business is hard enough when you have an original idea, ample capital, no core business to cannibalize, and a team of top talent. Human capital.

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How to Navigate a Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review

An organization is essentially the sum total of its physical, financial, human, intellectual, and relationship capital. Different industries and different business models have always maintained different percentages of these asset types. These assets are typically overlooked, undervalued, and under-managed.

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All Hail the Failure Sector

Harvard Business Review

Since at least the 1980s (the era of deregulation, that is, over which Alfred Kahn presided) managers of big companies have been upbraided for their intolerance to risk. Knowing that mature firms must become more venturesome to continue growing, business gurus routinely advise them to embrace failure.

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Can HP Change its DNA?

Harvard Business Review

Software had turned into a stronger driver of revenue in the computer industry than hardware, and HP management had realized that it had to make the shift to sustain its growth. In a company setting, that would be the economics of its business model. With hardware markets, money is spent upfront to develop a system.