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Fueling Innovation: How Microsoft Finally Got It Right

Leading Blog

Its market cap is over $2 trillion. In 2014, when the company’s market capitalization was $380 billion, this Microsoft veteran took over as CEO. By 2019, Microsoft’s market capitalization edged past the $1 trillion mark, making it the world’s most valuable company. By 2023, its market cap reached $2.5

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The Promise of a Truly Entrepreneurial Society

Harvard Business Review

Most large companies seem to have lost the taste for entrepreneurship, their CEOs preferring to focus on using technology to maximize profit from existing businesses, as Clayton Christensen and others have shown, or not to invest at all. There are lessons here for giant corporations and the stock markets they trade on.