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Alphabet Isn’t a Typical Conglomerate

Harvard Business Review

In the years ahead, Alphabet could dramatically influence business models in many industries. This new entity could bring together human talent, technology scale, and long-horizon venture and investment approaches to construct business models that could pose a formidable challenge to those designed and perfected in the industrial age.

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Does Silicon Valley Still Care About Climate Change?

Harvard Business Review

Earlier this month, venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins began the process of separating its cleantech investing from the rest of its fund. Ten years after Kleiner star John Doerr was moved to tears during his TED talk about climate change , there’s no longer any question that VCs’ interest in clean energy is waning.