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Why Some Digital Companies Should Delay Profitability for as Long as They Can

Harvard Business Review

In the world of technology: the more of something you make, the more valuable it can become. When your product can become more valuable to your customers over time, the way you prioritize building features and harvesting profits within a business needs to change. The Refresher: Net Present Value. The list goes on.

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What Xerox PARC Learned About Executing on Open Innovation

Harvard Business Review

At that time it was hard for PARC to understand how much we needed to invest in a new technology before approaching partners to work together in commercialization. Potential open innovation partners can't always immediately envision later-stage business opportunities from early-stage technology seeds. Use them to create an ecosystem.

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What If Investors Who Held Their Shares Longer Got More Voting Power?

Harvard Business Review

” Laying out their data, they find that long-term oriented companies create more financial value and more jobs. I agree with their vision of a future in which more companies focus on the long term and become more productive for the world (their findings accord with my own work on the dangers of short-termism ).

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