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Biometrics Won’t Solve Our Data-Security Crisis

Harvard Business Review

Your driver’s license is the default proof of identity for everything from flying domestically to buying a new house. At the same time, we can anticipate friction as new forms of identity verification are integrated into old systems (technological, business, and social systems) with the potential for further erosions of privacy.

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NewTV Is the Antithesis of a Lean Startup. Can It Work?

Harvard Business Review

Since NewTV won’t be making the content, it will be licensing from and partnering with traditional entertainment producers. Because the amount of customer discovery and product-market fit you need to find is inversely proportional to the amount and availability of risk capital. It’s the antithesis of the lean startup.

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Centralized Decision Making Helps Kill Bad Products

Harvard Business Review

They invest significant resources in research, marketing, and distribution. Our research suggests that, on average, more centralized decision making structures are more likely to pull poorly performing products from the market. Firms might leave products on the market well past their prime. Killing products isn’t easy.

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Calculate How Much Your Company Should Invest in Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Identifying this so-called “growth gap” is critical, because the bigger the gap, the more a company needs to look beyond its current offerings, markets, and business models to find growth opportunities. By reaching new customers in current markets? By stealing share from current competitors?

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It’s Never Been More Important for Big Companies to Listen to Local Communities

Harvard Business Review

On paper, the project seemed like it would be a hit: The investment by the mining company would bring jobs and 21st-century technology to an economically poor area and tax revenues to the government. Alice Potter/Getty Images.

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How Blockchain Will Accelerate Business Performance and Power the Smart Economy - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM MICROSOFT

Harvard Business Review

Originally gaining notoriety as the data technology underneath the cryptocurrency called bitcoin, today blockchain technology is expanding its reach far beyond the confines of currency and tackling issues involving transactional social trust throughout the world. Powering the Supply Chain with Internet of Things (IoT) technology.

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How the U.S., the EU, and Japan Are Trying to Rein in China’s State Capitalism

Harvard Business Review

They are also discussing ways to prevent China from forcing Western companies to transfer technology to Chinese firms. EU, and Japan want to make such practices subject to the same rules as government subsidies to SOEs and to private firms but are still trying to reach a consensus on the best ways to do that. In May, the U.S.,