Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

As technology becomes more disruptive and we see more importance placed on big data and artificial intelligence, what will matter most are those things that make us human – the soft skills. Taylor There's no such thing as an average or old-fashioned business, just average or old-fashioned ways to do business.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Aside from complex technological advances (e.g., Aside from complex technological advances (e.g., But it also has implications for areas outside of entertainment, such as marketing, fashion, tourism, and retail, where commercial AR apps have already been increasing in numbers and popularity.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 11, 2016

These days, for studying anything related to online, 2013 is ancient history. The most plausible defense is that budgets are tight, but surely it is more important to devote resources to measuring in a timely fashion the parts of the economy that are changing rapidly than to keep current on sectors that move glacially.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 24, 2015

Absent regulatory barriers, Google can so easily extend its search technology to new regions and countries that would-be rivals struggle to find an untapped location. When Groupon acquired Blink Booking in 2013, it saw lots of value in the hotel clients and customers that Blink had established through painstaking door-to-door sales.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Corporations buy and employ human advice from many wise advisors—consultants, lawyers, investment bankers—in the same fashion that investors did in the past. Companies are both operators and investors. These numbers represent more than three times as much as was invested in 2013.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 7, 2016

For people in other professions, it may be Quora, a website that hosts questions and answers on subjects from programming languages to fashion to the outbreak of the Zika virus. ” Such innovative solutions have paid off: Fortune magazine recently named Highfive to its list of the 10 Best Small Workplaces in Technology.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

These include improving data-mining operations, helping with training, and making structured, repeatable tasks and processes far more efficient and less costly. From just a few thousand queries a month in 2013, ABIe now handles 100,000 — from all of the company’s employees, and not just from agents.

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