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The Brighter Side of Decades of Disappointing Investment Returns

Harvard Business Review

John Authers, in Thursday''s FT , musters up the evidence (or at least the opinions) that bonds and stocks are both likely to deliver paltry returns for years to come. An important engine for economic growth is the creation of new enterprises. Compensation Economy Finance' So here''s the big if.

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Why Companies That Wait to Adopt AI May Never Catch Up

Harvard Business Review

There is a lot of taxonomy and local knowledge that needs to be incorporated into the AI system —similar to the old “knowledge engineering” activity for expert systems. There are several domains and business problems for which the requisite knowledge engineering is available. Integration Time.

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Start Networking with People Outside Your Industry

Harvard Business Review

As Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam has written, you need to have a balance of both “bonding capital” and “bridging capital” — i.e., relationships based respectively on your commonalities (bonding) and relationships built across differences (bridging). But you have to play the long game.

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Fighting Inflation, Ruining Economies

Harvard Business Review

Finance Minister Domingo Cavallo (himself a Harvard economics Ph.D.) Even government bonds were yielding some 10% annually in dollars. Then shocks — the 2008-2009 global crisis, the revelation that Greece had disguised its debt and deficit — sent foreign finance for the exits.

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The Future of Cities Depends on Innovative Financing

Harvard Business Review

In traditional financing models, it’s just not possible for investors to see their way to a financial return based on some abstract added value of the integrated whole. This is where a new financial product, social impact bonds (also known as pay-for-success contracts), can play a role. Insight Center. Innovation in Cities.

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Social Media Influence | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Like most things, building and maintaining your social media footprint should be engineered by design, but the truth is that most people allow it to be constructed by default. Don’t breach trust - you work far too hard to create a trust bond with your followers, so don’t blow it by not following through on your commitments.

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Women, Finance the World You Want

Harvard Business Review

When she's not at work managing a portfolio that consistently outperforms relevant benchmarks, you can find her at home buying and bearing bonds. This friend also studied engineering in college and knows how to code. Some of the dreams I finance are close to home. Investing also finances the kind of world we want.