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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business

In the language of networks, the value of the platform provider is not in creating the nodes (whether people, things, or data) but in fostering the connections between the nodes. For most companies intellectual property is something that sits on their balance sheet.

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business

My guess is that while a poor balance sheet might cause restless sleep, it’s the thought of an incorrectly reported balance sheet that brings on night terrors. I’m not against benchmarking and norming. Most boards would benefit from richer data sets that compare their company to others.