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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business Review

The middle layers spend their entire days in meetings or on conference calls, traveling to meetings outside the hospital, or negotiating contracts with vendors. One large nonprofit system that has been struggling with its costs had a “president of strategy,” prima facie evidence of a serious culture problem!

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The U.S. Media’s Problems Are Much Bigger than Fake News and Filter Bubbles

Harvard Business Review

Media companies are experiencing an extreme form of competition that comes with digital technologies: Everyone is a media company today. ” It explains why firms that have anchored their strategies to content have ceded digital leadership to those that have focused on connections. The second is through name recognition.

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