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Why Microsoft Is Willing to Pay So Much for GitHub

Harvard Business Review

To put this in perspective, Microsoft acquired LinkedIn for $26 billion in 2016 (7.2x Financial value is the stuff of business school and stock markets. It’s about multiples of revenue or earnings, sales growth, profit margins, and management theory. Microsoft’s $7.5 So why the difference?

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The Type of Purpose That Makes Companies More Profitable

Harvard Business Review

” Oxford University and Ernst and Young found that public dialog on purpose has increased five-fold between 1995 and 2016. fairness, management quality) and connect them both to purpose and financial performance. . But is all this talk about purpose actually delivering business results?

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A Platform Strategy Won’t Work Unless You’re Good at Machine Learning

Harvard Business Review

Just consider that a few tweets from the president caused Amazon’s market capitalization to fall by about $40 billion, or that Russian influencers were able to reach 126 million people through Facebook. Large-scale platforms are too complex, and the use cases too varied for simple algorithms to manage them.

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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.” But in the meantime, Google’s choices in marketing and distributing its new product get to the heart of the tension between new opportunities and existing strategy.

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When Unequal Pay Is Actually Fair

Harvard Business Review

In addition, highly successful companies — those who are leaders in their market and have surpassed revenue expectations — are the most likely to adopt this compensation policy. Start with market rate. Begin with a good, data-informed baseline of what each employee is worth on the current talent market.

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

Harvard Business Review

Both consumers and companies will likely have to manage different rules for different markets, and different technologies. Emerging markets are often overlooked in these conversations, and they bring up a host of different issues. ” Kenya has identified 21 hate-mongering WhatsApp groups.

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Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders – An Expert Roundup

Joseph Lalonde

Even if it’s walking to the local market for lunch, or parking further away in a parking lot. Back in January 2016, I had 45 meetings in the month of January. He could have attributed their success to more advanced technology, better marketing, or thinking differently. John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing.