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Yahoo! Is! For! Sale!: Why Banks Should Care

Celent Banking

The announcement in December came on the heels of a nearly 12-month project aimed at spinning its 15% interest (worth $30 billion) in Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce company, to its shareholders, a transaction that has been abandoned over tax concerns. It’s very simple: innovation is a game that is played for a full 9 innings.

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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

CB Insights

The Sad State of Corporate Innovation. See how corporates are failing when it comes to innovation. Download the free 31-page State of Innovation report. While Google excelled in building software, it lagged behind in hardware and product innovation. Date: March 20, 2003. Microsoft and Nokia. Date: April 25, 2014.

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Monitise to Emphasize API, On-Site Solutions in Strategy Shift

Fintech Labs Insights

Amid the revenue and profitability metrics in the recent trading update from UK mobile banking innovator Monitise was news that the company was shifting strategy from “purpose-built” platforms to standardized, cloud-based APIs in a bid to cut costs. Founded in 2003 and headquartered in London, U.K.,

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Quantifying the full impact of country-specific policies on trade flows

BankUnderground

A byproduct of the analysis is that we obtain an estimate of the trade elasticity for services, which is typically challenging to estimate given that services trade is not taxed in the same way that goods trade is via tariffs. Methodology in a nutshell. increase in international (versus domestic) trade.

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24 Lessons From Warren Buffett’s Annual Letters To Shareholders

CB Insights

In the early 70s, See’s was able to produce about $2M a year (after tax) on just $8M in net tangible assets (including all accounts receivable.) Berkshire Hathaway bought See’s, and by 1982, it was up to producing $13M after taxes on just $20M in net tangible assets. That premium is the company’s “economic goodwill.”.

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Killing Strategy: The Disruption Of Management Consulting

CB Insights

State of Innovation Report. BCG, which was the first strategy-first management consulting firm, today has a reputation for being the most “academic” of the big firms, with a focus on corporate development and innovation (that is, helping companies adapt to the digital world, grow, and reorganize). Many are still in wide usage today.

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When Corporate Innovation Goes Bad — The 116 Biggest Product Failures Of All Time

CB Insights

Product innovation is one way that large corporations stay competitive in a rapidly changing marketplace, but it doesn’t always work out when big brands attempt innovation. Understanding failure is crucial since so many accounts of innovation focus on the successes and so are affected by survivorship bias.