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Case Study: Is a Promotion Worth Hiding Who You Are?

Harvard Business Review

division of the Korean conglomerate Hanguk Industries, where Mark, a vice president of technology, reported to him. The division had just won a big contract with a major mobile operator in Qatar and needed to customize a smartphone system for the client’s Middle East–wide network in the next six months. “Good news?”

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Can We Quantify the Value of Connected Devices?

Harvard Business Review

And this addresses the commercial value creation question – P&G’s mindset was to create operational efficiencies that would contribute to healthy EBITDA margins. While not historically dedicated to connected devices, these companies are good case studies for the commercialization and valuation of their data assets.

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18 of the Top 20 Tech Companies Are in the Western U.S. and Eastern China. Can Anywhere Else Catch Up?

Harvard Business Review

Most of the digital giants in both countries are investing in artificial intelligence and other technologies that will facilitate their entry into yet other industries. Indeed, from 2011 to 2017, the GAFAM companies (Google/Alphabet, Amazon, Facebook, Apple, and Microsoft) acquired more than 65 leading-edge European technology companies.