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Leveraging Silicon Valley — From Wherever You Are

Harvard Business Review

It’s no longer good enough to wait for change to come to your industry; you need to be out there where it’s happening. So suppose you want to follow the over 200 multinationals across a multitude of industries that have set up a strategic beachhead in Silicon Valley. Swisscom AG is the major telecommunications provider in Switzerland.

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Looking for a Job When You're No Longer Young

Harvard Business Review

And federal age discrimination actions filed annually increased 66% between 1999 and 2011. Consider the industry. Yet the Internet and software and consumer electronics industries are dominated by people under 40. Yet the Internet and software and consumer electronics industries are dominated by people under 40.

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The Top Six Innovation Ideas of 2011

Harvard Business Review

They'll increasingly be a source of, and resource for, innovation differentiation in 2011, if not for your organization, then for the firm you most dread competing against. Where professionals once wrote memos to be read, 2011 begins an era in which documents are written with touch both in mind and on fingertips. That's right.

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The Cable Guys Need to Come up with a Better Argument

Harvard Business Review

Cable internet service goes out in snowstorms, too, and if the latest American Customer Satisfaction Index is to be believed, Americans are much happier with their energy providers (who score a respectable 76 on the index ) than their internet providers (a dismal 63 , absolute worst of the 43 industries tracked).

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There’s a Gender Gap in Internet Usage. Closing It Would Open Up Opportunities for Everyone

Harvard Business Review

We have all heard about a gap when it comes to participation of women in the tech industry. computing and mathematical jobs are held by women, consistent with the data that around 26% of the STEM workforce in developed countries is female. In developing countries, those differences are even greater. michael suriano/unsplash.

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Subscription Businesses Are Booming. Here’s How to Value Them

Harvard Business Review

Previously dominated by the likes of newspapers, magazines, gyms, utilities, and telecommunications firms, more products and services are being offered to more people through subscriptions than ever before. subscribers in 2017, and the industry as a whole has been growing at 200% annually since 2011.

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How eBay and Facebook are Cleaning Up Data Centers

Harvard Business Review

According to a report put out by Greenpeace in April , the electricity demand of data centers and the telecommunications network is rivaling that of most nations. eBay : The online retailer built its first data center in 2010 (it had previously leased data center space, which is what many in the industry do) in South Jordan, Utah.

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