Chart Your Course

JANUARY 13, 2017

In the days after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX), a chief executive cannot hide behind the acts of the CFO. If you are creating a technology empire, you will need a customer care department. If the movies are true, the ideal is a tie wearing, straight arrow that lives for financial statements. Customer Service Rep.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Of course, Moneyball isn't just a baseball movie; it's Michael Lewis's account of the transformation of an industry by analytical decision-making. But the A's didn't win the World Series in 2002, or any year since. It's not surprising that it made over $20M —the best opening weekend ever for a baseball movie.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

The number of internet users in China stood at roughly 5 million in 1999 but grew to 40 million in 2002, by which time it was clear that Yahoo was not getting the traction that local Chinese internet companies were seeing. search engine company Inktomi in 2002. Yahoo had failed at first too, of course. internet company in China.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The 2002 movie Minority Report told the story of a future in which law enforcement could tell who would commit crimes in the future. Human resources Information & technology Talent management' The police then arrested those people before they could commit the crimes. So what, if those predictions are right?

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