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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. A platform investment model is fundamentally different from the efficiency model that drives most platforms today.

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60 Countries’ Digital Competitiveness, Indexed

Harvard Business Review

Yet in this short period, digital technologies have upended our world. Digital technology is widespread and spreading fast. Digital technologies are poised to change the future of work. Automation, big data, and artificial intelligence enabled by the application of digital technologies could affect 50% of the world economy.

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What Apple Should Do with Its Massive Piles of Money

Harvard Business Review

In this letter, I’d like to explain more fully why I view the $51 billion already spent by Apple on open market (including accelerated) share repurchases under your leadership as a major misallocation of resources for both the company and the U.S. Unlike Mr. Icahn, I do not write to you as an Apple shareholder (I hold no Apple shares).