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NewTV Is the Antithesis of a Lean Startup. Can It Work?

Harvard Business Review

The plan is to create 10-minute programs; think YouTube meets Netflix. But NewTV doesn’t plan on testing these hypotheses. With fewer than 10 employees but almost $2 billion dollars in the bank, it plans on jumping right in. Katzenberg recently hired Meg Whitman, the ex-CEO of HP and eBay, as CEO of NewTV. And it may work.

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Strategic Choices Need to Be Made Simultaneously, Not Sequentially

Harvard Business Review

That is because no meaningful Where to Play choice exists outside the context of a particular How to Win plan. For example, Uber made a Where to Play choice that included China because it’s a huge and important market. In other words, there aren’t inherently strong and weak Where to Play choices.

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

Harvard Business Review

Telecom and financial services are poised to lead the way, with respondents in these sectors planning to increase their AI tech spend by more than 15% a year — seven percentage points higher than the cross-industry average — in the next three years. Believe the hype that AI can potentially boost your top and bottom line.

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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.

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Why We Shouldn’t Worry About the Declining Number of Public Companies

Harvard Business Review

stock exchanges has declined by almost 50% from its peak in 1996, despite dramatic increase in aggregate market capitalization. firms gravitate towards digital strategies, firms have less need for elaborate finance, marketing, production, distribution, accounting, and human resource departments. stock exchanges.

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Which Nation Has the Best 'Technik'?

Harvard Business Review

A decade from now we may look back at China's 12th Five-Year Plan as the seminal document of the early 21st century. But America's edge is eroding fast as it struggles to keep first-mover advantage over its innovations. It pledges $1.5