Harvard Business Review
JUNE 18, 2014
Google has asserted that this will adversely affect innovation, but those claims are premature. The EU’s human rights-centered views have been influencing global standards and privacy practices in the Middle East for decades, and businesses have adapted to more restrictive markets, like China and North Korea , and thrived.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 16, 2014
Icahn later reduced his buyback request to $50 billion, and in April 2014 Apple’s board approved a $30 billion program to be carried out by repurchasing its shares on the open market — either by just buying shares outright or doing it indirectly via accelerated share repurchases. trillion on buybacks (51% of net income) and another $2.3
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Harvard Business Review
MARCH 26, 2012
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. Packaged food companies like Kraft and Pepsi use their scale to penetrate markets quickly and efficiently. Consider Porter's value chain. Each of these practices modularizes a firm.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 24, 2016
To consider the impact this is having on tech firms, it’s critical to understand the change the internet has had on the world of business, taking the addressable market for any one product or service from a handful of localities through to the entire planet. Historically, the size of the market that mattered was the domestic market.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 10, 2016
An earlier agreement, known as the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles, which went back 15 years and was relied on by some 4,000 companies, was declared illegal last year based on concerns, highlighted by the Edward Snowden disclosures, that compliance with surveillance requests from U.S. Last week, the U.S.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 5, 2016
” Vodaphone is considering moving its headquarters out of the UK and its CEO Vittorio Colao had told the BBC that a Brexit would preclude it from a giant new single market. The digital talent market in the UK is already tight. Scaling Up Will be Harder Without Common Platforms and a Single Market. billion R&D fund ).
Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 11, 2015
Yet Icahn has never invested in Apple’s value-creating capabilities that increase innovation and productivity. Capital markets work best when information is promptly and widely available to all. ” On page 529, there is one parenthetic reference to “stock options.”
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