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How Twitter Hype Helps Startups

The Horizons Tracker

They analyzed around 400,000 English-language tweets about 37 different technologies and over 4,600 venture capital funding rounds from 2008 to 2017. “Twitter sentiment is a comparatively novel signal in venture capital financing, and it is at the same time only a weak signal in comparison to patents,” the authors say.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Co-founder of Rose Park Advisors—Disruptive Innovation Fund. A leading thinker on strategy and breakthrough innovation. Antonio Nieto-Rodriguez – Author of the best-selling book: The Focused Organization, Winner of the 2017 Thinkers50 Award for ‘Ideas into Practice’. Darek Lenart – Senior VP HR, Finance MasterCard.

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Midsize Cities Are Entrepreneurship’s Real Test

Harvard Business Review

Through a coordinated, systemic, prolonged intervention with dozens of institutions and thousands of individual participants, new growth of the local companies we trained has directly created over 1033 jobs, fueled by dozens of new private sector financings. strategic hires). day, scale-focused workshops and related activities.

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What 11 CEOs Have Learned About Championing Diversity

Harvard Business Review

Diversity can boost innovation and employee engagement , and companies with greater gender and racial diversity financially outperform their peers. The structured interviews were conducted by me over the phone, Skype, or in person, between February and June 2017. The business case for diversity is clear.

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60 Countries’ Digital Competitiveness, Indexed

Harvard Business Review

We introduced the Digital Evolution Index in HBR in 2015 to trace the emergence of a “digital planet,” how physical interactions — in communications, social and political exchange, commerce, media and entertainment — are being displaced by digitally mediated ones. Innovation and change.

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Should Dual-Class Shares Be Banned?

Harvard Business Review

Firms with growth opportunities as well as the need for external equity financing often convert to dual-class shares. MSCI’s recent analysis shows that unequal voting stocks outperformed the market over the period from November 2007 to August 2017. While media companies, such as The New York Times Co.,

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How More Regulation for U.S. Tech Could Backfire

Harvard Business Review

If 2017 was the year that tech became a lightning rod for dissatisfaction over everything from the last U.S. Innovation and its discontents are nothing new, of course, going back at least to the 18 th century, when Luddites physically attacked industrial looms. But perhaps what tech critics really want are more innovative rules.