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Should Big Companies Give Up on Innovation?

Harvard Business Review

It’s a common question thrown at me by entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, or the more cynically minded corporate leaders. Start-up companies tend to cluster in industries favored by venture capitalists (like biotechnology or information technology) or ones where there are relatively low barriers to entry (like restaurants).

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Publishing Is Not Dying

Harvard Business Review

If marketers want to produce content, they need to think like publishers. After all, content isn’t an extension of marketing, it’s an extension of publishing. How can I hold up a struggling industry as a model? If publishing is a viable model, why aren’t publishers making money? Aren’t publishers failing?” Aren’t they?