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The EU Privacy Ruling Won’t Hurt Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Google has asserted that this will adversely affect innovation, but those claims are premature. Corporations need to see privacy as another market ripe for innovation, one that can yield global profits, because adapting to EU concerns means extending your market reach across the world. Information & technology Innovation'

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The Commoditization of Scale

Harvard Business Review

In the game of innovation, there is next to no time to rest. In other words, the advantages of size gave some companies a bit of safe harbor. All in all, scale has provided some immense strategic benefits to large companies around the world — protecting many from entrepreneurial innovations that would otherwise threaten.

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Is Copyright Enforcement Censorship?

Harvard Business Review

To stop all the downloading , Wayne's record label must issue takedowns to newalbumreleases and/or RapidShare, which are protected from liability by the DMCA (as long as they are following the safe harbor provisions), and only I and the million downloaders are liable. It's about protecting intellectual property.

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The More Things Change, the More Our Objections to Change Stay the Same

Harvard Business Review

That''s why the first principle of change is originality — for leaders to see their organization and its problems as if they''ve never seen them before, and, with new eyes, they need to develop a distinctive point of view on how to solve them. They reinterpret what''s come before to develop a line of sight into what comes next.

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How to Reduce Primary Care Doctors’ Workloads While Improving Care

Harvard Business Review

In this article, we identify the barriers slowing the transition of episodic, in-person primary care to innovative models that separate care from location and that empower patients to take on more of their own care. This approach has had the secondary consequence of limiting innovation in delivery methods.

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Brexit Could Deepen Europe’s Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

As it is, software developers in a UK tech startup earned about 26% more than the industry average and those in sales and development in the UK earned 12% more than the industry average – making the country one of the more expensive locations to launch a venture. Innovation Hubs Will Fragment. billion R&D fund ).

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Clinton’s Proposals on Stock Buybacks Don’t Go Far Enough

Harvard Business Review

Yet Icahn has never invested in Apple’s value-creating capabilities that increase innovation and productivity. That said, the safe harbor provision of Rule 10b-18 that currently enables a company to repurchase on any one day up to 25% of its stock’s average daily trading volume over the previous four weeks should be eliminated.