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The EU Privacy Ruling Won’t Hurt Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Google has asserted that this will adversely affect innovation, but those claims are premature. Corporations need to see privacy as another market ripe for innovation, one that can yield global profits, because adapting to EU concerns means extending your market reach across the world. And Europe’s concerns are global concerns.

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The Commoditization of Scale

Harvard Business Review

In the game of innovation, there is next to no time to rest. In other words, the advantages of size gave some companies a bit of safe harbor. All in all, scale has provided some immense strategic benefits to large companies around the world — protecting many from entrepreneurial innovations that would otherwise threaten.

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How to Reduce Primary Care Doctors’ Workloads While Improving Care

Harvard Business Review

There is still a need for accountants and face-to-face meetings, but typically accountants now require such visits for only the more complicated cases that can’t be managed with software or a call. This approach has had the secondary consequence of limiting innovation in delivery methods.

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Brexit Could Deepen Europe’s Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

Unless the new administration in the UK manages to work out some form of a deal on immigration and work permits with the EU, its digital industries will be hobbled by a talent shortage and a steeper cost disadvantage. Innovation Hubs Will Fragment. The coming squeeze on talent will make this situation much worse.

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Clinton’s Proposals on Stock Buybacks Don’t Go Far Enough

Harvard Business Review

Yet Icahn has never invested in Apple’s value-creating capabilities that increase innovation and productivity. That said, the safe harbor provision of Rule 10b-18 that currently enables a company to repurchase on any one day up to 25% of its stock’s average daily trading volume over the previous four weeks should be eliminated.