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How General Mills Uses Food Technology to Make an Impact in Africa

Harvard Business Review

As a group, we saw the need to fully embrace technology in a way that would easily allow skilled volunteers to transfer their knowledge to our partners in Africa. PFS volunteers were able to provide Nyirefami with the technical expertise needed to install a quality control lab, and improve washing and pre-drying operations.

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Healthy Habits Of Successful Leaders – An Expert Roundup

Joseph Lalonde

I do not let anyone or event take away from quality time I have with my two kids. 2) Family – Quality and quantity time, with my wife and kids. Which leads me to this conclusion; one of the healthiest habits you can operate in is healthy thinking! This has been the biggest contributor to how I operate now.

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Should Everyone Be Allowed to Invest in Private Tech Companies?

Harvard Business Review

His stated goal is enabling small investors to get access to alternative high-quality investments, such as in private tech companies like Uber and AirBnB. They therefore seek investors who understand their initial losses and can facilitate secondary rounds of funding when their operations grow.

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The Right and Wrong Ways to Regulate Self-Driving Cars

Harvard Business Review

Startups and major tech companies, notably Alphabet’s Google X division , are investing heavily in smart car technology, as are network ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology.

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How to Pick a Co-Founder

Harvard Business Review

Different operational skills. Even within a discipline there are differences in core operational strengths: often highly technical businesses will have more than one highly technical co-founder, but one of them will, for example, be a terrific architect while the other will be excellent at R&D or engineering. Similar work habits.

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Learn from Your Analytics Failures

Harvard Business Review

The most enduring impact of predictive analytics, I’ve observed, comes less from quantitatively improving the quality of prediction than from dramatically changing how organizations think about problems and opportunities. This ultimately required greater centralization and limiting local operator flexibility and discretion.

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The Comcast-Time Warner Merger Is Not a Sign of Strength

Harvard Business Review

The announcement late last week of Comcast’s $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable set off a predictable frenzy of hyperventilating by much of the technology media and self-appointed consumer advocacy groups. Cable is just a technology, increasingly one of many, for transmitting information, whether video, voice or data.