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Economies of Unscale: Why Business Has Never Been Easier for the Little Guy

Harvard Business Review

Automation is wiping out whole job categories, from cashiers to machine-builders, while pressures from globalization, trade, and new Internet-driven business models have disrupted industries and displaced hundreds of thousands of workers. But the tide is about to turn.

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Research: Self-Disruption Can Hurt the Companies That Need It the Most

Harvard Business Review

When innovations threaten to disrupt an industry by replacing an old business model with a new one, incumbents need to invest in that model in order to survive. electric utility sector, in which the existing model for energy generation, which has prevailed for a century, may now be giving way to a new one.