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How Big Data Brings Marketing and Finance Together

Harvard Business Review

When Raja Rajamannar became CMO of MasterCard Worldwide in 2013, he moved quickly to transform how the credit card giant measures marketing. But the real power and full potential of data was not being fully realized by marketing. Rajamannar involved finance early. His artillery: Advanced Big Data analytics. Inside Intel.

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Why America Is Losing Its Entrepreneurial Edge

Harvard Business Review

financial services sector went from 13,000 of independent banks to half that number, while the top ten banks grew from 20% market share to 60%. As of 2013, the top ten banks had 70% of the market. In pharmaceuticals, the largest company, Pfizer, is the result of decades of mergers. Economy Entrepreneurship Finance'

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Social Media Compliance Isn't Fun, But It's Necessary

Harvard Business Review

For highly regulated sectors like finance, social media can be a legal minefield. These hurdles aren't unique to financial services — insurance, pharmaceuticals, health care and government all face regulation, to name a few examples. "Follow us here for updates on our work, our research, and our people.".

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What to Know About Doing Business in Iran

Harvard Business Review

But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets.

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What Is Organizational Culture? And Why Should We Care?

Harvard Business Review

Beginning May 1, 2013, I facilitated a discussion around this question on LinkedIn. finance vs. marketing) and units (e.g. a fast-moving consumer products division vs. a pharmaceuticals division of a diversified firm). Nor can we develop good approaches to analyzing, preserving and transforming cultures.

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When Research Should Come with a Warning Label

Harvard Business Review

His answer is that in a news market overflowing with facts, facts by themselves go unsold; they require a story—and that story, he says mischievously, needs some kind of bias on the part of the author, “a pair of lenses that slide over reality and aim to bring it more clearly into focus.” Where should all this go in our minds?”.