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How Advanced Analytics Is Changing B2B Selling

Harvard Business Review

While there’s less buzz around business-to-business markets, these innovations are changing the game in B2B as well, even in old-line industries selling what might be considered commodity products. The service offers the possibility of enhancing an engineer’s marketability and growth and development.

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How Watson Changed IBM

Harvard Business Review

In January 2014 IBM announced they were spending $1 billion to launch the Watson Group , including a $100 million venture fund to support start-ups and businesses that are building Watson-powered apps using the “ Watson Developers Cloud.” So how does it work? First, with multiple business models.

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Health Care Becomes Entrepreneurial (Finally)

Harvard Business Review

But ongoing changes in policy, technology, and industry culture are now creating unprecedented opportunities for those with just the right kind of crazy. Health care is attracting an influx of talent from other industries to tackle some of its toughest problems. billion in 2013, up 39% from 2012.

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Publishing Is Not Dying

Harvard Business Review

How can I hold up a struggling industry as a model? Vox Media, a venture-funded publishing start-up, recently lured Ezra Klein away from the Washington Post. Even The New York Times —which, as I’ve noted , has not run its business well— achieved 8% net margins in 2013—not great, but not exactly a tragedy either.

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How Singapore Became an Entrepreneurial Hub

Harvard Business Review

.” In my first year in Singapore we might hear news about a company landing venture funding every few months, and an exit (cashing out either through an IPO or by selling itself to a larger company) every year. We invested in the company in 2012 through our fund, with the government contributing 85%, and U.S.-based