Debora Spar

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Piracy & Profiteers

Hollywood wants protection from pirates. It turns out that regulation is something that businesses usually demand, especially after a group of individuals or corporations establish a dominant position in the market. Debora Spar asks of her Harvard Business School students: if your strike it rich on your gold mine, is it efficient to build fences and stand guard around your strike? Of course not....
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Which is really the bubble? (And is it bursting?)

So are blogs just a passing fad, as Kevin Maney claims? His USA Today column stirred up a minor tempest in business blog circles, mainly for assertions such as: So, yeah, blogs are cool. Anything that gives people a voice benefits society and makes us all better and smarter - and, as bloggers have proved, makes established information outlets more accountable. But blogs don't seem to be the...
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