You can always feel the difference between city streets that were designed from the bottom up versus the top down. For example, when I visited the Old City district in Baku, Azerbaijan, I noticed a marked contrast between the tightly twisted serpentine streets, lined with the most unusual shops and restaurants, compared to the squared-off […]
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This week, Netflix shares plunged 35% in a single day after Tuesday’s report that the company lost subscribers for the first time since 2011. Overall, the stock price is down 40% this year. It’s an unexpected turn of events for the company formerly known as the “king of streaming” and a disruptive shock to the
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One of my favorite things about the work I do is having the opportunity to interact with companies in so many different industries. Last week, I gave a speech to WSP Golder, one of the largest civil engineering consulting firms with 55,000 consultants, nearly 25,000 of which are focused on earth and the environment. They
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It’s safe to say most of us have seen it by now. Even if you missed the Academy Awards this year, you’ve likely watched the news, social media memes, or a video replay of the jaw-dropping Oscars moment when Will Smith slapped Chris Rock for making a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith’s hair loss.
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Why do companies exist? British economist Ronald Coase’s 1937 Theory of the Firm tells us that the existence of a firm is necessary when the costs of managing coordination internally are less than the transaction costs in the external marketplace.
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Across many industries, the pandemic whisked the world along in an upheaval of transition. Ready or not, digital transformation pointed the way to survive, if not excel, in a suddenly virtual world.
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For an organization, selecting which business ecosystem to participate in carries weighty consequences. It can shape the core of your identity and lead to a leap in competitiveness if you do it well.
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The nature of competition in business is changing. What has historically consisted of company-to-company rivalry has evolved into a struggle between competing ecosystems to gain supremacy. Business ecosystems consist of two or more partner companies who agree to combine their assets, capabilities, markets, and talent pools to create and deliver new value.
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Early this year, I was swept back into the shuffle of domestic travel with a family vacation in Colorado, and speeches in Arizona, Florida, and Georgia. After almost two years stateside, I recently returned to international travel with a business trip to Azerbaijan, and soon, I’ll be visiting Iceland.
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Mir Imran is a legendary innovator. He started a career of building healthcare companies in the late 1970s and has been developing breakthrough medical innovations for over 40 years. He has founded more than 20 life sciences companies, 15 of which have gone public or been acquired.
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