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Should You Write a Book?

Harvard Business Review

Yes, you can make your entrance to the ideaplex with a blog, video, or a conference talk. Has new book" is a standard, and often required, box to tick for the gatekeepers who control access to areas of the ideaplex you would most like to enter: lecture halls, television studios, boardrooms, media pages, special events, people''s minds.

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How an NBA Team Thinks About Data, Talent, and Pricing

Harvard Business Review

Between ticket sales, sponsorships, merchandising, and media rights, Price Waterhouse Coopers estimates global sports revenues will grow to total roughly $145 billion. We now have entire conferences dedicated to the analytics of our business and our basketball operations. These aren’t mom and pop operations anymore.

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The Most Engaging Ideas Leave Something Out

Harvard Business Review

And yet in business, we rush to fill any empty space with noise — a new offer, more features, another conference call. Now, to hype something means to push it heavily through marketing,media and merchandising. Customers Innovation Marketing' In music, too, the pauses matter just as much as the sound.

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Big Data’s Dangerous New Era of Discrimination

Harvard Business Review

Suburban Caucasian mothers are most likely to use social media to share their complaints, followed closely by Asian and Hispanic mothers. But how should sophisticated marketers and merchandisers use them? After all, they tend to be both more profitable and measurably more willing to effectively use social media.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

They’re more productive , more profitable , more innovative , and they pay better. Walmart went from a 3% share of the general merchandise retail market in 1982 to over 50% today. That’s not how Vox Media does it. Architectural Innovation. Andrew Brookes/Getty Images. Policymakers have noticed. IT Does Matter.