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Badges? We Don’t Need No LinkedIn Badges

Harvard Business Review

These hacks are things like badges, diplomas, dress codes, and, as it happens, credit ratings. It is happening now because the powerful combination of the mobile phone, the social graph, and new authentication technologies is reducing the cost of using social capital effectively at a transaction level. Workarounds.

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Four Steps to Fixing Your Bad Data

Harvard Business Review

From falsified mortgage applications and bundles of toxic mortgages, to incorrect credit ratings and balance sheets that couldn't be trusted, the financial crisis is as much about bad data as it is about unfettered greed. Unfortunately, reputational risk is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to bad data quality.

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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

Businesses operate in more spheres than ever — in-store, in-person, telephonic, web, mobile, and social channels. The idea is that direct driving behavior over time will be more predictive than traditional proxies such as age, credit rating, or geography. How are we going to coordinate multi-channel data?