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Joint Ventures Reduce the Risk of Major Capital Investments

Harvard Business Review

Guidelines for selecting an appropriate model. But on the other hand, in order to safeguard the company’s future competitiveness, CEOs may have no other choice than to invest now. There are still other asset ownership and operation models, but the seven described above give an idea of the range of possibilities.

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Ad Blocking’s Unintended Consequences

Harvard Business Review

Placing ads next to content helps websites recover the sizeable fixed costs of creating content. But ad blockers cut off this revenue stream and make it difficult to offset even the running cost of storing and delivering content to visitors. Most large publishers now require advertisers to comply with DAA guidelines.

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Why Mergers Like the At&T-Time Warner Deal Should Go Through

Harvard Business Review

According to the Department of Justice’s review guidelines , vertical mergers pose far less risk of consumer harm than mergers of competing, or horizontal, firms. Video programming, after all, is produced at high fixed costs, with increasingly small marginal costs to duplicate and distribute widely.