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

Harvard Business Review

Every organization has five types of capital: human, financial, intellectual, physical, and relational. Human capital. After all, we call the department human resources. Intellectual capital. For most companies intellectual property is something that sits on their balance sheet.

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How to Navigate a Digital Transformation

Harvard Business Review

Manufacturers invest most of their capital into physical assets, while high-tech firms invest in R&D to create new intellectual capital. Different industries and different business models have always maintained different percentages of these asset types.