Sam Miller

Elon Musk’s Big Bet for SpaceX

Elon Musk’s Big Bet for SpaceX

Elon Musk is taking SpaceX public and keeping almost all the power. Ryan Mac, a technology reporter for The Times, breaks down why the company’s record I.P.O. is both a big bet on Musk’s vision and a risk for investors. By Ryan Mac, Nour Idriss, Nikolay Nikolov, Stephanie Swart, Rafaela Balster and Sam Rosenthal June…

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Where Does China Fit in Your Company’s Innovation Strategy?

Where Does China Fit in Your Company’s Innovation Strategy?

For decades, multinationals largely framed China in one of two ways: The country was either an enormous growth market—challenging to operate in, but too big to ignore—or a rising competitor, increasingly difficult to out-run. As a result, they organized China operations downstream—focused on localization, market access, and revenue—while keeping core innovation anchored elsewhere. Source: Read…

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3 Ways to Rethink Your Build-or-Buy Strategy

3 Ways to Rethink Your Build-or-Buy Strategy

To compete on innovation, firms often choose between building and buying their way to success. Buying is typically presented as a route to synergy, scale, diversification, speed-to-market, and ready-to-use assets. Building is often treated as the cheaper alternative that can be customized to needs. In our view, that framing is too simplistic. The real question…

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When Purpose Backfires

When Purpose Backfires

It is no secret that leading with purpose can bring tremendous benefits. Decades of research show that conveying a compelling mission and helping employees connect their jobs to that mission forms an ideological contract with employees, which can drive sustained engagement, boost sales and other performance metrics, buffer against employee burnout, and attract top talent…

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