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FinTech Is Weaving Charitable Giving into Everyday Transactions

Harvard Business

At PayPal, for example, we have designed an efficient system that makes micro-donations an economically viable fundraising stream for millions of charities. Take Humble Bundle , a leading online retailer of digital games and eBooks.

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Rethinking the Corporate Love Affair with Change

Harvard Business

Consider Amazon: The company has almost single-handedly transformed major parts of the retail, logistics, and internet sectors in just two decades. If your system for staffing work is basically effective, then changing it too frequently will distract your employees and erode their ability to perform.

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Seth's Blog: Most people, most of the time (the perfect crowd fallacy)

Seth Godin Blog

The complete list of online retailers. The myth of ebooks is that now that anyone can publish, enormous numbers of people will use this new platform to create countless numbers of new classics. In fact, most self-published ebooks just aren't very good. The new open systems embrace waste. Subscribe to Seths Blog.

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