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Category Archives: Market Power

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TedGlobal Talk: Banking on Openness

September 5, 2012December 13, 2012

As you might have noticed, I took the summer off. Well, not quite off.  More like away.  I went to Scotland, and gave a talk at TEDGlobal on the topic …

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Anyone Can, and This One Does

May 24, 2012September 1, 2012

Jack Andraka a 15-year-old student from Maryland, came up with a paper sensor that detects pancreatic cancer 168 times faster than current tests. It’s also 90% accurate, 400 times more …

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5 Must-Read Week(day) Reading

May 22, 2012May 22, 2012

Because I am a bit heads-down working on my 2nd book title (for Harvard Press, out in the fall), I have only a few words of my own to spare. …

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Just How Powerful Are You?

April 30, 2012December 13, 2012

When you write online, no one checks to see if you have a journalism degree before they start to read. If you experience an earthquake and want to report on …

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Resilient Organizations & Open Networks

April 23, 2012April 20, 2012

In Philip Auserwald’s recent book, The Coming Prosperity, he mentioned that open networks beat closed networks and larger networks beat smaller networks. As regular readers know, I’ve been talking about …

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What defines scale?

April 11, 2012

In the past 100 years, we needed institutions to create scale. Firms provided us with a more efficient way to create value by lowering collaboration costs and increasing the access …

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The Elastic Enterprise

April 9, 2012April 4, 2012

I was recently connected to Haydn Shaughnessy, the Forbes columnist and E2.0 expert, who just wrote a book, called the Elastic Enterprise. In it, he mentioned that one of the …

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What Replaces Marketing

April 4, 2012April 6, 2012

During the last few months, I’ve been teaching and advising some students over at Stanford University on Entrepreneurial marketing (in a class taught by Chuck Eesley). My key thesis is …

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Stop Talking About Social and Do It

March 16, 2012March 16, 2012

“Leadership” has changed when a decentralized group of people can take down a government. “The Value Chain” has changed when the customer is no longer just the “buyer” but also …

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