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For Some Platforms, Network Effects Are No Match for Local Know-How

Harvard Business

In 2016 the company sold its China operation to Didi Chuxing because of the fierce competitiveness of the local player. Any platform still needs to achieve a product-market fit to succeed in the long run. Recruit Holdings started out in the 1960s as an advertising company that published magazines for job seekers.

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Innovation Should Be a Top Priority for Boards. So Why Isn’t It?

Harvard Business

Only 13% of directors in the energy and utilities industry consider innovation to be a major strategic challenge, but the swift growth of renewable energy companies and such developments as the use of drones for monitoring oil and gas production suggest that no industry is impervious to the forces of innovation.

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5 Ways to Help Employees Keep Up with Digital Transformation

Harvard Business

And at Greycroft, a venture capital firm, investor Teddy Citrin has laid out a veritable map for the further disruption of every consumer products category. Plug-and-play e-commerce technology, search engine optimization, and other distribution solutions are making it ever easier for products to directly reach consumers.

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Disruptive Startups Get Funding More Easily, but Less of It

Harvard Business

In the start-up world, the disruptor is the cool kid on the block, the one who’ll change the world — or at least the products you’ll buy and how you buy them. A new product or technology sells better to all stakeholders if people can be persuaded that it will disrupt the status quo. Gina Pricope/Getty Images.

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Has the MBA become Redundant for a Career in Consulting?

Tom Spencer

Through going to many different networking events and information nights with different firms, I have learned that this fact is quickly told by recruiters. Their advice is always the same, for them their other degrees showed firms that they have an inquisitive mind that can solve problems with the utmost productivity. Image: Pexels.

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As Machines Take Jobs, Companies Need to Get Creative About Making New Ones

Harvard Business

Retailers such as Macy’s and The Limited are closing hundreds of stores and cutting tens of thousands of jobs as people buy more and more products online, and others are testing robotic assistants or planning for autonomous stores. This practice helps companies recruit and incentivize workers. That isn’t true.

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Why Companies Overlook Great Internal Candidates

Harvard Business

However, LinkedIn’s recent Talent Trends study, conducted between January and March of 2016 with more than 26,000 professionals, showed that 25% of professionals today have their eye on a promotion. We see three common scenarios that can cause employers to recruit outside their ranks for talented people (albeit at their own risk).

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