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Profit Is Less About Good Management than You Think

Harvard Business Review

Revenue moats are usually linked to intangible assets (including brands and patents), high switching costs, and network economies. He studied the relative importance of management teams in 106 venture capital-financed firms from early business plan to IPO.

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Business School Professors Should Be Like Movie Directors

Harvard Business Review

Professors must think of themselves as experiential movie directors for a production of Global Business in the Networked Economy , orchestrating and coaching a multinational cast of actors through experiments – and stepping off of the stage for a broader purview. Use incentives to stimulate moves and counter-moves.

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Technology Alone Won’t Solve Our Collaboration Problems

Harvard Business Review

Just look at the comments below any article about virtual teams. Our fast moving, globally networked economy simply was not possible a few years ago. Collaboration Technology Leading teams' Every week a vendor introduces a new gadget, system, or service that promises to make us communicate and collaborate better, faster.

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Why the Problem with Learning Is Unlearning

Harvard Business Review

You and Your Team Series. ” But in a networked economy, the nature of strategy, value creation, and competitive advantage change from incremental to exponential. .” It’s not easy to unlearn the mental habits that no longer serve us. The same thing happens in business. Thinking Strategically. Mark Bonchek.

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