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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Intellectual capital. For most companies intellectual property is something that sits on their balance sheet. But what if the value is not in the intellectual capital itself but in the connectivity of that IP? Patents, trademarks, brands, data, and software (IP) are proprietary assets creating differentiation.

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Gloominess About the US Economy is a Choice

Harvard Business Review

But an awful lot of these jobs command very high-wages in law, finance, accounting, consulting, advertising, engineering, design, software, healthcare, scientific research, architecture, entertainment, hospitality, and many other areas. True, some of these are low-paying, burger-flipper jobs. This may all change as China innovates and grows.

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Developing Global Leaders Is America's Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business Review

has become a Mecca for international scientists, engineers and business students — particularly those undertaking graduate studies. French pharmaceutical company Sanofi recently acquired Boston-based Genzyme to tap into America's intellectual capital in biotechnology.

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The Economic Roots of Your Life Crisis

Harvard Business Review

Acemoglu and Robinson call these extractive institutions — and according to them, institutions that extract value, instead of creating it (in my language, institutions that don't create thick value), are the roaring engines of decline. A life crisis, I'd say, is a crisis of human potential foregone. I think we have to stop conforming.

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Bureaucracy Must Die

Harvard Business Review

This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet. Managers assess performance. Rules tightly circumscribe discretion. Architecture.

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Bureaucracy Must Die

Harvard Business Review

This is the recipe for “bureaucracy,” the 150-year old mashup of military command structures and industrial engineering that constitutes the operating system for virtually every large-scale organization on the planet. Managers assess performance. Rules tightly circumscribe discretion. Architecture.

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Can HP Change its DNA?

Harvard Business Review

It governs an organization's cultivation of its intellectual capital—how it leverages what it already knows how to do, and how it evolves its offering based on changing market demands. The DNA that has been in HP's bones from the start is all about excellence in hardware engineering.