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What's Your Medal Tally? – Behind the Scenes of myPicks | Rajesh Setty

Rajesh Setty

Here’s what I found out from Pramati’s Co-founder & CTO Vijay Prasanna Pullur. © 2005 - 2010 Rajesh Setty Podcast Powered by podPress (v8.8) You get to represent your country by predicting the real Olympic winners for various events. RS: Congratulations on the new Facebook game release.

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Procter & Gamble and Innovation in Asia

Harvard Business Review

As promised , I asked Bruce Brown , P&G's CTO, one of the questions readers submitted last week: "As you look forward into the future what do you see as P&G's largest challenges, as seen through your eyes as CTO?" Brown noted three specific challenges. First, the general challenge of growth. P&G is about an $80 billion company.

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Get the Most Out of Your Board

Harvard Business Review

A 2010 Catalyst Information Center study (PDF) found "companies with gender diversity at the top drive better financial performance on multiple measures — including 36% better stock price growth and 46% better return on equity.".

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The Professional’s Guide to a Stress-Free Vacation

Harvard Business Review

Until this summer, Matthew Bellows hadn’t taken more than a few days’ vacation since 2010, when he launched Yesware, a Boston-based email productivity and tracking tool for salespeople. He alerted his executive team that he would be gone, and tapped his co-founder and CTO as the final voice for any decisions that needed to be made.

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Act Like a Leader Before You Are One

Harvard Business Review

In late 2010, after ten years at Citi, Heather Espinosa was promoted to managing director. Mike Subelsky, the co-founder and CTO at Staq, a tech start-up that makes software for digital advertising companies, spent most of his early career in roles with lots of responsibility, but not much authority. "I

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Make Your Innovative Idea Seem Less Terrifying

Harvard Business Review

In 2010, the first year, the event was fledgling, but charming. Because Modernist Cuisine founder Nathan Myhrvold was a former Microsoftee (their first CTO and the founder of Microsoft Research), Heimendinger immediately reduced the perceived risk of hiring him by speaking their shared Microsoft language.

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C'mon, IT Leaders. Take a Chance!

Harvard Business Review

The movie-by-mail program was enhanced by the streaming option in 2010 and slowly they killed all their competition like Blockbuster. The New CTO: Chief Transformation Officer. Even more impressively, their spin out Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp. Netflix is another example of disruptive innovation. IT Doesn''t Matter (to CEOs).