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Why Your Company Should Partner with Rivals

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, the true paradox that smart, trailblazing companies are solving is how to outperform their competition by collaborating with their competition. So I asked: Do you foresee a time when you'd willingly provide access to your leading green technology to your competitors? Here's how and why this matters to you.

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

Harvard Business Review

America was abundance: a place that welcomed fatherless children, a place that gave equal opportunity to learn at a reasonable expense, a place that allowed anyone to contribute regardless of their family lineage. For example, IBM's co-created product lines account for approximately 20% of its revenue and many of its innovations.