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

Harvard Business

Retailers like Walmart and Macy’s manage a supply chain, buying and reselling their own inventory. A platform can be a business platform (a multisided market), a software platform (a cloud-based subscription service), or an engagement platform, (a user-generated community). We normally think of people as something to be managed.

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business

First, directors face a real challenge in making sure that protection and alignment of key governance and risk management issues doesn’t crowd out equally important dialogue around strategy and operations. I’m not against benchmarking and norming. Benchmarking and norming won’t always lead to the right decision.