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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. Sure, these technological improvements help in many ways. Our fast moving, globally networked economy simply was not possible a few years ago. But more often than not, the problem we’re facing isn’t a technological one, but a social one.

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Business School Professors Should Be Like Movie Directors

Harvard Business Review

But with more and more technologically disruptive change affecting our classrooms – through social media, wearable computing, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), gamification, and so on – it’s time we shift away from the business school model of sage-on-a-stage. Use incentives to stimulate moves and counter-moves.

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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.