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The EU Privacy Ruling Won’t Hurt Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The EU’s human rights-centered views have been influencing global standards and privacy practices in the Middle East for decades, and businesses have adapted to more restrictive markets, like China and North Korea , and thrived. markets, but we know we are exposing ourselves at home.” And Europe’s concerns are global concerns.

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The Commoditization of Scale

Harvard Business Review

In other words, the advantages of size gave some companies a bit of safe harbor. Packaged food companies like Kraft and Pepsi use their scale to penetrate markets quickly and efficiently. To understand my point, let's think about how big companies have developed scale advantages through information systems.

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Brexit Could Deepen Europe’s Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

” Vodaphone is considering moving its headquarters out of the UK and its CEO Vittorio Colao had told the BBC that a Brexit would preclude it from a giant new single market. The digital talent market in the UK is already tight. Scaling Up Will be Harder Without Common Platforms and a Single Market.

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

Harvard Business Review

Indeed, under Clinton’s proposals, top executives would continue to line their pockets by using their companies’ open-market repurchases of their shares to augment their realized gains from exercising stock options and the vesting of stock awards. Capital markets work best when information is promptly and widely available to all.