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Do You Know What Your Company’s Data Is Worth?

Harvard Business Review

For example, at the end of its 2015 fiscal year, Apple’s balance sheet stated tangible assets of $290 billion as a contribution to its annual revenues, with approximately $141 billion worth of intangible assets — a combination of intellectual capital, brand equity, and (investor and consumer) goodwill.

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Bureaucracy Must Die

Harvard Business Review

Ask just about any anyone to draw a picture of their organization — be it a Catholic priest, a Google software engineer, a nurse in Britain’s National Health Service, a guard in Shanghai’s Hongkou Detention Center, or an account executive at Barclays Bank — and you’ll get the familiar rendering of lines-and-boxes.

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Bureaucracy Must Die

Harvard Business Review

Ask just about any anyone to draw a picture of their organization — be it a Catholic priest, a Google software engineer, a nurse in Britain’s National Health Service, a guard in Shanghai’s Hongkou Detention Center, or an account executive at Barclays Bank — and you’ll get the familiar rendering of lines-and-boxes.

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All Hail the Failure Sector

Harvard Business Review

The sector has entities, too, to improve the flow of intellectual capital. Note that FailCon's sponsors included a Silicon Valley Bank and a variety of business services firms.). Don't think of these investors — who accept their one-in-ten hit rate as a rule of their game — as part of the financial industry.

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The Tempting of Rajat Gupta

Harvard Business Review

McKinsey responded that it was actually investing more on intellectual capital, but on the industry-specific variety of more use to consultants and clients.) They paid their executives accordingly, as did the banks, brokerage houses, hedge funds, and private-equity outfits whose share of U.S