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The Best Platforms Are More than Matchmakers

Harvard Business Review

How should leaderships invest to make their users – not just their platforms – measurably better? Improving user capabilities would measurably improve Airbnb efficiencies. This same socially shared educational/advisory capability can be seen in SAP’s carefully built developer community.

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Huawei’s Culture Is the Key to Its Success

Harvard Business Review

In doing so, they acquired extensive experience in developing sturdier equipment and materials – such as chew-proof wires — which helped them later on to gain several big business accounts in the Middle East, where similar problems stymied the multinational firms.

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60 Countries’ Digital Competitiveness, Indexed

Harvard Business Review

Politics, regulations, and levels of economic development play a major role in shaping the digital industry and its market attractiveness. Most of the developing world is overwhelmingly cash-dependent; in Malaysia, Peru, and Egypt, only 1% of transactions are cashless. .” More than 1 billion jobs and $14.6