Monopolies and Tech Giants: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review

by Harvard Business Review, Marco Iansiti, Karim R. Lakhani

How to compete in a world dominated by tech giants. A new breed of monopolies is threatening your business. Tech mega-firms from around the world are encroaching on your industry's space, rewriting the rules, and scooping up talent--and your customers. What should you and your company be doing right now to counter these challenges? Monopolies and Tech The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review will provide you with today's most essential thinking on corporate inequality and the future of antitrust, help you understand what these threats mean for your organization, and give your company the tools to succeed in the winner-take-all economy. Business is changing. Will you adapt or be left behind?
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Genres: Business, Nonfiction

192 pages, Paperback

First published April 21, 2020

Reviews

[Antonio · Rating 3 out of 5]

I stumbled upon this compilation of articles written by Harvard Business Review contributors. Among other topics, this topic about new monopolies or data‐opolies caught my eye.

So this is my assessment of the book Monopolies and Tech Giants by Harvard Business Review contributors, according to my 8 criteria:
1. Related to practice - 3 stars
2. It prevails important - 3 stars
3. I agree with the read - 5 stars
4. not difficult to read (as for non English native) - 4 stars (I listened to text to voice app)
5. Too long (more than 500 pages) - short and concise (150-200 pages) - 5 stars (I listened it for one and a half hour)
6. Boring - every sentence is interesting - 3 stars
7. Learning opportunity - 4 stars
8. Dry and uninspired style of writing - Smooth style with humouristic and fun parts - 3 stars

Total 3,125 stars

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some insights with interesting ideas, but ultimately lacks detail, data, and intellectual rigor. The book sets out with the goal of helping business owners learn to adapt to a world where large tech is increasingly dominant, yet never really provides sufficiently concrete ideas or resources. This can be read largely as a collection of surface-level ideas with some interesting cases, which ultimately falls short of its stated aim. As an investor, I found some ideas presented here to be old, obsolete, and there was nothing truly original about the authors' insights. Disappointed.

[Arun Narayanaswamy · Rating 3 out of 5]

One of my first hbr books and I am not disappointed at all.
What it missed is that it focused on retail domain heavily though there are multitudes of other domains which have monopolies. The inspiration of this book comes from various other books which the author refers to. A good read for sure.