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Radical Recovery Tools

Strategy Driven

Each issue is packed with thought-provoking content and insight into the business issues that affect all companies competing in today’s technology-driven marketplace with recent contributions by best-selling author and researcher Tom Davenport; social media guru Chris Brogan; and Myron Scholes, world renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner.

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Big Data's Human Component

Harvard Business Review

Any fool, or mortgage banker, can use a spreadsheet and calculate a Black-Scholes equation. But if you don't understand what is happening behind the numbers, both in the math and the real world, you risk collapsing the World Financial System, or more likely your own business. Understand how to present information.

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What an Economist Brings to a Business Strategy

Harvard Business Review

Google generates most of its revenue through an auction-based system of selling ads that was developed by two engineers but validated by its chief economist, Hal Varian, a former consultant to the company who was also the first Dean of the School of Information Sciences at the University of California at Berkeley. Economists and finance.