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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

search engine company Inktomi in 2002. The previous year the company had generated more than $4 billion in gross merchandise sales through its platform, yielding about $50 million in revenue. Only legal, finance, and human resources still reported back to headquarters. Tsai, for example, clearly understood U.S.

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Why Your Company Culture Should Match Your Brand

Harvard Business Review

Rarely do people point to encouraging employees to disagree with their managers, as Amazon does, or firing top performers, as Jack Welch did at GE. Each of these companies has aligned and integrated its culture and brand to create a powerful engine of competitive advantage and growth.

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