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World Cup Predictions Contest

Chris Brady

 No one else who picked the winner got another top 3 pick correct, and those who picked more than one of the top 3 didn't manage to get the correct winner. Then watching another thirty two countries compete in 2014-Brazil for the final.   Thanks to everyone for participating! Dreaming Big again. Clink - Clink*.

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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

In 2014 a graduate student at Stanford named Etosha Cave and two colleagues began their entrepreneurial journey. Disappointed, but still determined, Etosha got a break when she attended a cleantech event hosted by the TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy in the summer of 2014. The Hard Road of Hard Tech. ” An Alternative Path.

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How to Know If a Spin-Off Will Succeed

Harvard Business Review

Conversely, the business may be an “unpolished diamond” that was neglected by its former management for too long and whose value is just waiting to be unlocked. Does the business have a complete, balanced, and cohesive management team? Are the management team and owners prepared to abandon business as usual?

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An Alternative to Health Care M&A

Harvard Business Review

While M&A may improve the efficiency of shared services such as human resources and finance, it may actually make it more difficult to improve the coordination of care. In 2011 Mayo elected to follow this course. In 2014, network members have submitted nearly 2,000 eConsults, and the volume is rapidly increasing.

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Research: Could Machine Learning Help Companies Select Better Board Directors?

Harvard Business Review

Ever since Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations in 1776, observers have bemoaned boards of directors as being ineffective as both monitors and advisors of management. corporations between 2000 and 2011. How well this approach to selecting directors will be received by management is an open question.

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Private Equity Can Make Firms More Innovative

Harvard Business Review

If you ask someone who works in finance (as I had to) about PE and innovation, he or she will likely tell you that PE sponsors aren’t looking for the next big thing—they’re looking for companies that are dominant in a market, aren’t risky, and have a predictable and steady stream of cash to pay back debt.

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How Investors React When Companies Announce They’re Moving to a SaaS Business Model

Harvard Business Review

For example, in 2014 IDC estimated that more than one-quarter of enterprise applications would be offered with the SaaS model by 2018, up from one-sixth in 2013. For example, Adobe’s finance team estimated that the cost of running both models side by side would cost them twice as much as simply offering one of the models.