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Startups Could Fundamentally Change the Way Big Investors Operate

Harvard Business Review

Innovation has the potential to transform the investment industry. Yet the world’s largest funds are closed off from these innovations. Research we have collected in recent months shows that pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, and endowments expect imminent breakthrough innovations in investment technology.

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What Apple, Lending Club, and AirBnB Know About Collaborating with Customers

Harvard Business Review

Today, however, by exploiting new digital technologies, firms like Apple, Lending Club, and AirBnB have made customer co-creation of value central to their business models and in doing so now rank among the world’s most innovative and valuable firms. Operate your new co-creative digital business. In general, no.

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Blockbuster Becomes a Casualty of Big Bang Disruption

Harvard Business Review

The shutdown will be completed by early 2014, bringing to a close a dramatic story of rise and fall at the hands of disruptive technological innovation, or what we have called “ big bang disruption.” At its peak, the company operated 10,000 stores. The Blockbuster-Netflix skirmish is a case in point.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. And academic research has found that rising industry concentration correlates with the patent-intensity of an industry, suggesting “that the industries becoming more concentrated are those with faster technological progress.”