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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.

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

Harvard Business Review

There’s been a gold rush happening in technology these last few years, focused on the Internet of Things, or IoT. It’s even frequently been referred to as “the next Industrial Revolution.” We began selling this new smart fan option and had several thousand excited early adopters.

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

Harvard Business Review

economy during the peak of the Great Recession (2008-2010). Cap and trade is projected to achieve nearly 20% of that goal by limiting emissions from the industrial, utility, and transportation fuels sectors — which account for roughly 85% of the state's greenhouse gas pollution. million annually.

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

Harvard Business Review

This meant that the company was leaving out huge innovation potential — thousands of startups with billions of funding — that could help BMW innovate anything from core vehicle technology (batteries, sensors, artificial intelligence software) to manufacturing innovations (internet of things, cybersecurity, robotics).

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Your Smartphone Works for the Surveillance State

Harvard Business Review

Technology, on the other hand, makes it much easier. And while you might scoff at these as something that only early adopters use, even late adopters of digital technologies leave behind an incredibly detailed trail of their lives. But the technology alone isn''t the problem.

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