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A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Harvard Business Review

In a follow up HBR article , we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks and distilled seven key insights from those discussions. Because investors consider these non-GAAP numbers to be value-relevant, we propose a more direct way for them to be calculated.

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How B2B Software Vendors Can Help Their Customers Benchmark

Harvard Business Review

Those analyses rely on publicly available data sources, but software providers have accumulated growing amounts of private data on almost every aspect of their customers’ technology, operations, people, and strategies. It is even possible to hold up the data mirror to individual technology users.

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GDP Is a Wildly Flawed Measure for the Digital Age

Harvard Business Review

New workers embarking on their careers are finding that their education is incomplete in many areas essential to our technology-driven lives today. While all of these are contributing factors, the major factor, in our view, is the deflationary effect of technology, which our measurement systems fail to account for.

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