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How Blockchain Could Help Emerging Markets Leap Ahead

Harvard Business Review

Much has been made of the potential for blockchain technologies to open up new vistas for business and society. But is there a way for this revolutionary technology to empower the rich and poor alike? How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. Distributed Database.

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Three Questions to Ask Your Advanced-Analytics Team

Harvard Business Review

The idea is that direct driving behavior over time will be more predictive than traditional proxies such as age, credit rating, or geography. This telematics data is then entered into actuarial models to predict driving risk (and thus insurance premiums).