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How to Revive a Tired Network

Harvard Business Review

Your relationships are also the best way to change with your environment and industry, even if your formal role or assignment has not changed. Breadth: How Diverse Is Your Network? ” Given a choice between a network heavily skewed to the power players in your firm and a good mix of diverse contacts, which would you choose?

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Use Big Data to Create Value for Customers, Not Just Target Them

Harvard Business Review

InVenture, a fascinating new startup operating in Africa, is turning incidental data on smartphones into credit ratings that allow base-of-the-pyramid customers access to loans and other financial products. Is there diversity and variance among my customers such that they will benefit from aggregating others’ data with theirs?