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Solving the Internet's Congestion Problem

Harvard Business Review

Our collective ability to equally access and innovate on internet platforms, from search and social networks, to content and commerce sites, is fundamental to continued growth. The amount of content shared and accessed by the world's 2.4 Innovation in content quality has surpassed innovation in internet delivery.

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

Harvard Business Review

The Supply Side I: Connectedness Matters More than Content or Money. How Focusing on Content Leads the Media Astray. Bharat Anand, author of The Content Trap and professor at Harvard Business School, talks about the strategic challenges facing digital businesses. Essential Background. Sarah Green Carmichael.

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Why Mergers Like the At&T-Time Warner Deal Should Go Through

Harvard Business Review

Time Warner is all about content, while AT&T is focused on distribution. On the same day rumors were swirling about objections to AT&T Time Warner, for example, Broadcom offered to buy fellow chipmaking giant Qualcomm, and stories surfaced of merger talks between Disney and 21st Century Fox.

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Don’t Compare Virtual Reality to the Smartphone

Harvard Business Review

The theory of disruption explains why incumbent businesses – with high fixed cost infrastructures and embedded beliefs about what the market wants – fail to adopt business models that lower the cost of their services and drive product accessibility to entirely new sets of users. VR is insular.

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Solving the Internet's Congestion Problem

Harvard Business Review

Our collective ability to equally access and innovate on internet platforms, from search and social networks, to content and commerce sites, is fundamental to continued growth. The amount of content shared and accessed by the world's 2.4 Innovation in content quality has surpassed innovation in internet delivery.

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4 Types of Activist Investors and How to Spot Them

Harvard Business Review

This means first objectively assessing the company’s vulnerabilities and how they might attract an activist’s attention. All public indications implied management remained content with maintaining large amount of excess cash and preferred to remain relatively under-levered.

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