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Why Family Businesses Come Roaring out of Recessions

Harvard Business Review

Some studies (see here or here ) have shown that during periods of economic growth, family-managed companies in the US actually perform better than professionally managed businesses. Family-owned businesses did not hold back on new product launches during the recessions.

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Strategic Choices Need to Be Made Simultaneously, Not Sequentially

Harvard Business Review

And Capabilities and Management Systems act as a reality check on the Where to Play and How to Win choice. If you can’t identify a set of Capabilities and Management Systems that you currently have, or can reasonably build, to make the Where to Play and How to Win choice come to fruition, it is a fantasy, not a strategy.

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What U.S. E-Commerce Can Learn from Its Global Copycats

Harvard Business Review

Every new market I look at seems to have an Amazon-style copycat — a website that looks, functions, and sells products a lot like a well-known online retailer. We were unable to capitalize on first mover advantage. But first mover advantage is a simplistic tenet of global strategy.

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A Survey of 3,000 Executives Reveals How Businesses Succeed with AI

Harvard Business Review

Thirty percent of early AI adopters in our survey — those using AI at scale or in core processes — say they’ve achieved revenue increases, leveraging AI in efforts to gain market share or expand their products and services. Furthermore, early AI adopters are 3.5 The biggest challenges are people and processes.

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How Netflix Expanded to 190 Countries in 7 Years

Harvard Business Review

In France and India, for example, homegrown leaders offer local-language video content, thus depriving Netflix of first-mover advantage. and Netflix has managed to make inroads into even those markets where Prime arrived first. Yet the majority of Prime subscribers are in the U.S.,

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How Netflix Expanded to 190 Countries in 8 Years

Harvard Business Review

In France and India, for example, homegrown leaders offer local-language video content, thus depriving Netflix of first-mover advantage. and Netflix has managed to make inroads into even those markets where Prime arrived first. Yet the majority of Prime subscribers are in the U.S.,

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The Hidden Costs of Initial Coin Offerings

Harvard Business Review

Those benefits fall into three categories: To jumpstart network effects that provide a first-mover advantage: Many of the projects being built using blockchain technology are “protocols” that govern the interactions between users in a decentralized autonomous network. private briefings of product road maps).

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