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The Ghost Workers Powering The AI Economy

The Horizons Tracker

Suffice to say, the very nature of the Hult Prize means that the company are at a very nascent stage of their development, but one organization that is further along their journey are San Francisco-based social enterprise Samasource, who work with gig workers in India, Kenya and Uganda to provide ethical access to the AI marketplace. .

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Startup Accelerators Have Become More Popular in Emerging Markets — and They’re Working

Harvard Business Review

It’s not all about venture funding. When it is about venture funding, hone in on the best matches. Accelerators should help start-ups develop a talent strategy alongside their financial strategy. One of the more complicated issues accelerators need to manage may be investors’ implicit bias.

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What Tomorrow's Leaders Are Learning in Africa Right Now

Harvard Business Review

While it may not be intuitive to global readers, I see many similarities between Samsung's transformation from local leader in Korea to major player on the world stage and our own journey in building the United Bank for Africa into a group that operates in 20 countries and on three continents. August 2011 HBR.

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What the CVS-Aetna Deal Means for the Delivery of U.S. Health Care

Harvard Business Review

Several trends should be disturbing to hospital administrators, including the development of free standing, low-cost “neighborhood” hospitals. Developed by the Johns Hopkins schools of medicine and public health, Hospital at Home has been tested in multiple markets throughout the United States and is working.

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How Watson Changed IBM

Harvard Business Review

Case in point, rather than keep Watson locked up in their research labs, they decided to release it to the world as a platform, to run experiments with a variety of organizations to accelerate development of natural language applications and services. So how does it work? First, with multiple business models.

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People Are the New Channel

Harvard Business Review

She developed compelling content to educate customers, prospects, advocates, and influencers on the new law. Brent Remai, CMO at FireEye , was hired into a small, venture- funded company with several years of moderate results. Instead of creating a campaign, Laura created a movement. 2) Don''t push products, solve problems.

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What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t

Harvard Business Review

To fill the void and build such a new BMW startup unit, Gimmy partnered with an experienced innovation manager from BMW, Matthias Meyer. The prevalent model of startup cooperation in recent years has been corporate venture capital and accelerators (CVC&A). A New Name and a Unique Brand Identity.