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Why Porter's Model No Longer Works

Harvard Business Review

These two key functions — Marketing and Service — are regularly discussed as shaped by social era dynamics. It will help us decide what we make, how much we make, and how we finance that production. Big had the dollars to buy the mass-market access to consumers back when mass media was the only way to reach an audience.

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Don't Draw the Wrong Lessons from Better Place's Bust

Harvard Business Review

Its approach was the first to align the key actors in the ecosystem in a way that addressed the critical shortcomings — range, resale value, grid capacity — that undermine the electric car as a mass-market proposition. Note to Tesla owners: you are not the mass market). It declared bankruptcy on May 26.