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Google’s Strategy vs. Glass’s Potential

Harvard Business Review

Firms like Deloitte have predicted robust consumer demand for smart glasses, with global adoption reaching “tens of millions by 2016 and surpassing 100 million by 2020.” That suggests that they may be trying to persuade firms to buy the device and develop applications for it. Many students voted for the first scenario.

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Why the Rest of the World Can’t Free Ride on Europe’s GDPR Rules

Harvard Business Review

competitiveness and its position in technology development will likely be central to the lobbying that will surround any efforts to change laws or boost federal regulations. Both consumers and companies will likely have to manage different rules for different markets, and different technologies. In the U.S.,

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Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders – An Expert Roundup

Joseph Lalonde

Back in January 2016, I had 45 meetings in the month of January. The healthy habits that I attribute to my success as a leader are practice what I preach, set healthy boundaries, practice mindfulness, exercise, work hard and invest in my ongoing learning and personal development. I work hard day in and out and take massive action.

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Why Google Fiber Is High-Speed Internet’s Most Successful Failure

Harvard Business Review

After deploying to six metro areas in six years, however, company management announced in late 2016 that it was “pausing” future deployments. In 2009, Congress charged the Federal Communications Commission with the development of a National Broadband Plan (NBP). Seen through that lens, Google Fiber succeeded wildly.

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What Initial Coin Offerings Are, and Why VC Firms Care

Harvard Business Review

Also known as “token sales,” this new fundraising phenomenon is being fueled by a convergence of blockchain technology, new wealth, clever entrepreneurs, and crypto-investors who are backing blockchain-fueled ideas. How technology is transforming transactions. Business in the Era of Blockchain. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Only Your Brand Will Save You

Harvard Business Review

News hit this past summer that Boston's Kiss 108 (a youth-driven radio station partial to Katy Perry and Lady Gaga) re-upped its contract with longtime morning host Matt Siegel through 2016. Most workers are buffeted by forces outside their control — industry changes, technological innovations, globalization, and the like.

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