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How Apple created two giants

Matthew Griffin

To understand Samsung’s rise to dominance we have to go back to the turn of the new millennium when Apple released their first generation iPod in 2001, quickly followed by the iTunes store in 2002. Why be the assembler when you can be the Venture Capitalist behind the next big technology wave? mgriffin_uk . +44 44 (0) 7957 456194.

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Four Innovation Trends to Watch in 2013

Harvard Business Review

Human ingenuity — increasingly augmented by technical amplifiers — remains the most remarkable renewable resource. From Khan Academy to Coursera to edX to the O'Reilly School of Technology, badges increasingly enjoy consideration as human capital's coin of the the realm for online education. Fed Up Entrepreneurship.

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How to Discover Your Company’s DNA

Harvard Business Review

IBM had a near death experience in the early 1990s due a series of bad business decisions. ” And its current focus is on Cognitive Business, led by the machine learning technology called Watson. .” ” And its current focus is on Cognitive Business, led by the machine learning technology called Watson.

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Would You Invest in This Kid?

Harvard Business Review

In 2002, a 14-year-old Malawi boy named William Kamkwamba built a windmill using items he collected from a scrap yard to power the electrical appliances in his family home. Human productivity was low and few technologies, at large scale, were created. This lack of economic growth across the world was not due to a lack of ideas.

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The Secret to Alibaba’s Culture Is Jack Ma’s Apartment

Harvard Business Review

In 2002, the year Alibaba.com first became profitable, founder Jack Ma gathered a handful of employees in his office and told them there was a secret project that they had the opportunity to join. Today, Alibaba looks more like a conglomerate than a typical tech company, with a diverse set of businesses operating largely independently.

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The Real Reason Superstar Firms Are Pulling Ahead

Harvard Business Review

One answer to that first question shows up in study after study: superstar firms are succeeding in large part due to information technology. His measure of IT better explains the rise in industry concentration than do measures of M&A or entrepreneurship. Bessen compared measures of industry concentration from the U.S.

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What Watching Too Much Star Trek Gets You

Harvard Business Review

August 2002: HBR's special innovation issue hits the street, and my contrarian article about the fickle nature of corporate innovation sits sandwiched between stories by the likes of Peter Drucker, Henry Chesbrough, John Seely Brown, and Richard Florida. Breaking Out of the Innovation Box" was not the title I had wanted, but it worked.