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Don’t Compare Virtual Reality to the Smartphone

Harvard Business Review

While Facebook is still working diligently on mobile applications, CEO Mark Zuckerberg went so far as to hint that the acquisition places the company on the cutting edge for the next pervasive platform: virtual reality. Disruptive innovation Technology' Virtual reality is a way of experiencing the content within a computing platform.

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Joint Ventures Reduce the Risk of Major Capital Investments

Harvard Business Review

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. This all presents CEOs with a tough dilemma. They also took an equity stake in ASML of 15%, 5%, and 3%, respectively.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business Review

Investor-owned hospitals rarely have more than three or four layers of supervision between the nurse that touches patients and the CEO. In larger facilities, there is often an astonishing proliferation of special care units, ICUs, and quasi-ICUs that are expensive to staff and have high fixed cost profiles.

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Telecom's Competitive Solution: Outsourcing?

Harvard Business Review

telecom carriers face daunting challenges from device makers, content providers, social networks, and an array of disruptive technologies. telecoms are classified as a high technology industry: "Network is their business." Bharti, on the other hand, has little expertise in technology. In the U.S.,

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Solving the Internet's Congestion Problem

Harvard Business Review

Congestion, rather than raw usage, is the key driver of this phenomenon; given that the Internet Service Provider network is largely a fixed-cost asset. Like any fixed-cost asset, such as the Interstate highway system in the U.S., Full disclosure: I am the CEO of BitTorrent, Inc., a distributed computing company.

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Solving the Internet's Congestion Problem

Harvard Business Review

Congestion, rather than raw usage, is the key driver of this phenomenon; given that the Internet Service Provider network is largely a fixed-cost asset. Like any fixed-cost asset, such as the Interstate highway system in the U.S., Full disclosure: I am the CEO of BitTorrent, Inc., a distributing computing company.