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What If Google Had a Hedge Fund?

Harvard Business Review

That's as true for a Walmart or a JCPenney as it is for a McKinsey & Co. The rising ability to identify, capture, and repurpose the data byproducts of an ongoing business is coming to rival the perceived "core competence" of the core business itself. or a PricewaterhouseCoopers.

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Meet Your New R&D Team: Social Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

As Steve Davis, former lead in McKinsey's Social Innovation practice and president of the global health NGO, Path, has said: "The best social innovations are not necessarily widely adopted. There are significant ethical issues with applying this model to HIV in the USA.