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'Woman Up' (and Win in Business): How Valuing Traditionally Female.

Strategy Driven

This book will show you, as an employee, customer or partner, how to use new social technologies, make yourself heard, and produce better products and services. Indeed, a 2008 issue of the McKinsey Quarterly noted that women tend to make deeper emotional connections with colleagues and business partners.

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Sales Still Matters More than Social Media

Harvard Business Review

It’s become commonplace for observers to tout the transformative potential of digital technologies and bemoan the allegedly slow pace at which companies support these initiatives. Digital growth is appropriately a priority for a diverse swath of organizations, and boards need to get with the program,” he writes. are picking up steam.”

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Will Big Data Kill All But the Biggest Retailers?

Harvard Business Review

A McKinsey study released in May 2011 stated that, by using Big Data to the fullest, retailers stood to increase their operating margins by up to 60% — this, in an industry where net profit margins are often less than 2%. Retail has entered the era of Big Data. But it is fast becoming cannon fodder. BIG DATA INSIGHT CENTER.

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Local R&D Won’t Help You Go Global

Harvard Business Review

The development of new technologies is complex and challenging, and to come up with the next big innovation, businesses must think — and operate — in new ways. But more recently, emerging-market locations have featured prominently in global firms’ technology portfolios.

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What Management 2.0 Looks Like

Harvard Business Review

In this first leg of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation , we asked the most progressive thinkers and radical doers from every realm of endeavor to share a story, a hack, a disruptive idea, or an experimental design that illustrates how the web can help overcome the limits of conventional management and create Management 2.0.

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

Harvard Business Review

Facebook, Google, and Apple have 17%, 19% and 23% women in their technology staffs, respectively. ” What this speaks to is an opportunity for the tech industry — both to address internal diversity issues and to address how companies think about the products they create around the world. michael suriano/unsplash.