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The Case for Investing More in People

Harvard Business Review

Both Kaizen events and Agile sprints are investments in innovation and human capital productivity. Many tech companies have experimented with giving employees unstructured time to explore new ideas such as LinkedIn’s InCubator, Apple’s Blue Sky and Microsoft’s Garage.

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Why Traditional M&A Is Becoming Less Important

Harvard Business Review

So we can expect that, in addition to formal mergers and acquisitions, the M&A of the future will consist of a potpourri of joint ventures, minority investments, alliances and incubator-type investments—anything that helps keep the relevant people on board and productive—which sounds very similar to Rockefeller’s strategy.