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Profit Is Less About Good Management than You Think

Harvard Business Review

His talented student, the legendary Warren Buffet, thought the same: “ when management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.”

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Patent Trolling Isn’t Dead — It’s Just Moving to Delaware

Harvard Business Review

Marshall has specific procedural rules regarding trial speediness and a reputation for plaintiff-friendliness. The low-cost and efficient initial review would follow the case through any further actions, strengthening high-merit cases and reducing the incentives for pursuing low-merit ones.

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How Blockchain Is Changing Finance

Harvard Business Review

Traditionally, companies target angel investors in the early stages of a new business, and later look to venture capitalists, eventually culminating in an initial public offering (IPO) on a stock exchange. This new funding mechanism is already transforming the blockchain industry. And, of course, companies such as Goldman Sachs, NASDAQ, Inc.,

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How Singapore Became an Entrepreneurial Hub

Harvard Business Review

” In my first year in Singapore we might hear news about a company landing venture funding every few months, and an exit (cashing out either through an IPO or by selling itself to a larger company) every year. The clean, efficient city has some livability advantages over Shanghai, Manila, Jakarta, or Bangkok.