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How Companies Say They’re Using Big Data

Harvard Business Review

I’ve been surveying executives of Fortune 1000 companies about their data investments since 2012, and for the first time a near majority – 48.4% — report that their firms are achieving measurable results from their big data investments , with 80.7% of executives characterizing their big data investments as “successful.”

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How to (Gradually) Become a Different Company

Harvard Business Review

Acquisitions are part and parcel of a transformation. Eaton’s acquisitions of Westinghouse’s distribution & control business (1994), Aeroquip-Vickers (1999), and Cooper (2012), increased revenues by roughly one-third with each addition. What is important is to create options and exercise them as the right opportunities arise.

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Rising Sea Levels Won’t Doom U.S. Coastal Cities

Harvard Business Review

Companies such as Coastal Risk Consulting are developing flood risk statistical models at the parcel level. When a storm surge during Hurricane Sandy hit Brooklyn in October, 2012, the plant did not flood. Sponsored by Dell and Intel® Fostering sustainable growth in urban areas. What will this adaptation look like?