Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

Social media companies use machine learning to block illicit content such as child pornography. While today’s basic technology is not necessarily revolutionary, the algorithms it uses and the results they can produce are. Assessing and mitigating internal risks.

Banking 8

Banking Strategic Fit Risk Management Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2013

But those impressive numbers may be eclipsed by a revolution in venture financing that is only being held back by final government approval: start-ups raising actual investment funds from individuals in exchange for equity or a share of profits. How big a deal is this “democratization” of finance? Last week, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

Everyone and everything is connected or soon will be by social media, on mobile platforms, and in the cloud. But no less planned or executed than another viral blockbuster — the OMGPOP team's March 2012 breakout of Draw Something , a Pictionary-like game. Achieving those effects is no accident. The Invisible Children, Inc.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2013

For a brief period, as they were being built into the infrastructure of commerce, all these technologies opened opportunities for forward-looking companies to gain real advantages. Nor do they understand the CIO''s role or, typically, the technologies that the company deploys. million passwords), LinkedIn (6.5 million records).

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

The marketing and sales team of one major technology vendor, for instance, partnered with risk to assemble a range of financing packages to help its mid-market clients fund upgrades, manage invoice payments, and smooth cash flows. With its 2012 London Olympics sponsorship it resolved to optimize its ads in real time.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. For example, in 2012, Intel, TSMC, and Samsung — three large semiconductor manufacturers based in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. Zhou departed in 2005 and went on to found Qihoo 360 Technology, a $12 billion company that now trades on NASDAQ. Not surprisingly, this didn’t sit well with the local team.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2016

In 2012 only about 21% (420,000) of the 2,000,000 stay-at-home fathers in the U.S. It is impossible to overstate how these technological developments have expanded the choices available to many working couples. Some of this comes from women, some from other dads, and some from the media. It’s a small club.

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Rogers Career Article Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2014

Without clear ethics rules, Jay worried that his already divided directors would fall into bitter squabbling, which could lead to resignations, negative media attention, and a flight of investors. But its business was manufacturing lightweight small arms technologies, so-called LSATs, for the U.S. Ethics Finance' government. “A

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 23, 2012

Crowdfunding of equity capital for startups is one of a handful of jewels in the crown of the JOBS Act that swept through the House and Senate in a rare and refreshing show of bipartisanship, and was signed into law by President Obama April 5, 2012.

Due Diligence 13

Due Diligence Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 13

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2012

After some searching, TripAdvisor found a magical business model, representing social media and user-generated content at its best. In the hyper-competitive world of technology and consumer Internet, it is hard to find a company that is pound for pound as profitable as TripAdvisor. billion market capitalization as of this writing.

EBITDA 8

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Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

These tax rates will remain in effect through 2012. Extends the repeal of phase-outs of personal deductions and limits on itemized deductions for higher income taxpayers through 2012. Extends certain middle class incentives and credits such as the Earned Income Credit and Coverdell Education Savings credit.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 30, 2017

And though the idea of VCs abandoning cleantech has been around since at least early 2012 , I was initially skeptical. “Clearly all of this reflects some sober reevaluation of the VC role in cleantech finance,” said Mark Muro, a senior fellow at Brookings, adding that “We’ve maybe asked too much of VC.”

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2017

From 2012 to 2014, the median home price rose by 17.3%. The transformation of the movie rental and physical media businesses are examples of what happens when businesses move from the traditional to the autonomous economy. In the meantime, the manufacturers and distributors of physical media are struggling. Related Video.

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Retail Automotive Supply Chain Proposal 9