Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 11, 2017

There are many explanations for growing inequality and stagnant wages, but studies have found that so-called “skills premiums” — higher wages for more-skilled workers — have been a significant factor in growing income inequality, and technology is the reason why that premium has risen.

Skills 8

Skills Engineering Telecommunications Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2017

Extrapolating from past trends is useful but limiting in a world of accelerating technological change. Rising sea levels flood Manhattan in Kim Stanley Robinson’s New York 2140 , prompting hedge fund managers and real estate investors to create a new intertidal market index. Science fiction can help.

Stephenson 14

Stephenson White Paper Real Estate Hedge 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

To wit, 45% of financial intermediaries , such as payment networks, stock exchanges, and money transfer services, suffer from economic crime every year; the number is 37% for the entire economy, and only 20% and 27% for the professional services and technology sectors, respectively. How technology is transforming transactions.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 27, 2018

voters and appeal to their hopes, neuroses, and fears, the political consulting firm needed to train its algorithm to predict and map personality traits. The velocity in acquiring and exploiting this personal data can help these companies obtain significant market power. ” To target U.S. That required lots of personal data.

Company 10

Company Advertising Incentives Engineering 10

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 1, 2017

You have to consider salaries, marketing budget, office size, technology services, and on and on. Too often, assumptions about the potential market and its clients can cloud our judgement about expenses. Too often, assumptions about the potential market and its clients can cloud our judgement about expenses.

Strategy 9

Strategy Budgeting Cost Price 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 24, 2011

As anyone with the slightest interest in the consulting business knows by now, the SEC has brought civil charges against Rajat Gupta in the Galleon insider-trading case. Indeed, his lawyer says the ex-consultant lost millions on an investment with Raj Rajaratnam, the central figure in the case.) from 1994 to 2003. billion to $3.4

McKinsey 14

McKinsey Consultative Waterman Intellectual Capital 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2015

As a result, business managers are becoming the primary information technology buyers, empowered to assemble a custom array of solutions which all work together seamlessly in the cloud. Which marketing programs are most successful at driving customers to purchase a second time? You and Your Team. Understanding Analytics.

Maturity 8

Maturity Information Technology Hedge Storytelling 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

Its primary social metric is the number of lives reached in base-of-pyramid markets. Instead, Acumen's strategy is to review the literature and consult experts to establish a link between a specific output and impact (for instance, how bed net distribution leads to malaria reduction) and to then count the outputs.

Long-term 8

Long-term Due Diligence Metrics Cost-Benefit Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 23, 2017

” People in industries as different as commercial real estate, pharma, biotech startups, hedge funds, and public school districts worried about how to transform a competitive, star-driven culture into a collaborative one when they had no power to juggle financial rewards and no influence over promotion decisions.

Payback Period 8

Payback Period How To Real Estate Hedge 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Hedge Funds will love our data — they will practically buy any set of data that might give them a potential edge”. Very importantly, they were able to avoid costly technology and implementation programs that would have surely fell short of usage and revenue expectations. “We have a treasure trove of data, it’s highly valuable”. “If

Execution 8

Execution Metrics Content Christensen 8