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The Mixed Returns From Predictive Analytics

The Horizons Tracker

” It has come to typify a booming industry in predictive analytics, with estimates suggesting the sector will be worth around $270 billion in 2022. The firms were chosen in part due to their propensity to be early adopters of technology. Strong returns. We found it puzzling,” the authors conclude.

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Can Impact Investing Avoid the Failures of Microfinance?

Harvard Business Review

The impact investment industry is growing rapidly, a fact that many of us in the field celebrate. In 2010, J.P In 2010, J.P Impact investors over the past decade largely focused on proving that impact investments could achieve a “market rate” or above return profile. Erik Dreyer/Getty Images.

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Do Your Customers Actually Want a “Smart” Version of Your Product?

Harvard Business Review

It’s even frequently been referred to as “the next Industrial Revolution.” And while we’ve found customers for IoT connectivity, the number of our customers who value the new technology has been much lower than industry projections led us to believe. According to the new market data, 55% of U.S.

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Why a Low Carbon Price Can Be Good News for the Climate

Harvard Business Review

The world's second largest carbon market (after the European Union) opened in the state as part of California's ambitious program to cap and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. economy during the peak of the Great Recession (2008-2010). The market will decide that. While leaders in Washington D.C That's the dynamic we want.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010. Top startups already have market leading solutions. Similarly, Charles Schwab was the early adopter client of Siebel’s revolutionary CRM system.

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Rajesh Setty

Through the spring of 2010, we released four volumes of EJ books and continued to experiment with the roundtables, which became increasingly popular. Meanwhile, in January 2010 my New Year’s resolution was published. By April 2010, the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) global initiative had been formally named.