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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. The company was owned by management, venture capitalists, and SoftBank.

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‘My Years with General Motors’, Fifty Years On

Harvard Business Review

Moreover, Sloan did this by means of organizational mastery, without the major engineering breakthrough that other GM insiders believed was their only hope. Despite his own origins as an MIT-educated engineer, he took inspiration from the “Paris dressmakers.” A central office kept track of finances and the allocation of resources.