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Open Sourcing May Be Worth the Risk

Harvard Business Review

In early 2012, my company made the decision to open source a key piece of our technology platform. We open sourced Mobify.js , our core framework that enables web developers and designers to create a mobile-friendly version of their website. Is it worth it?

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10 Tactics for Launching a Product Using Social Media

Harvard Business Review

Millennials are turning to Facebook and Twitter, while GenZ, or the iGeneration, is skeptical of brands and places more value on peer-to-peer reviews–even from strangers. When we wrote about the Amazon Fire phone launch for Harvard Business Review in June 2014 , Amazon missed the mark in disrupting the smartphone market.

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Employers Aren’t Just Whining – the “Skills Gap” Is Real

Harvard Business Review

Last year, 35% of 38,000 employers reported difficulty filling jobs due to lack of available talent; in the U.S., The issue is confusing because the skills required to work with new technologies are hard to measure. Nevertheless, employers still have real difficulties hiring workers with the skills to deal with new technologies.

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Open Sourcing May Be Worth the Risk

Harvard Business Review

In early 2012, my company made the decision to open source a key piece of our technology platform. We open sourced Mobify.js , our core framework that enables web developers and designers to create a mobile-friendly version of their website. Is it worth it?

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Where Are All the Self-Employed Workers?

Harvard Business Review

What about “ The Rise of the Supertemp ” that Jody Greenstone Miller and Matt Miller reported in HBR in 2012? Most of this decline has been due to the continued emptying and consolidation of America’s farms (or, if you prefer, the productivity revolution in U.S. The BLS data series on self-employment starts in 1948.).

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