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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

Digital companies, however, consider scientists’ and software workers’ and product development teams’ time to be the company’s most valuable resource. Analysts increasingly rely on non-GAAP metrics. Both strategies, however, create cultural incompatibility within the organization.

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A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Harvard Business Review

The company’s first revenues indicate the acceptance of its product or services by customers. Those outlays could be on soft avenues, such as customer acquisition, data breach and safety, regulatory fines, and product enhancement, or on hard assets, such as hardware, servers, and cellphone towers.

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The Dangers of Digital Protectionism

Harvard Business Review

These solutions lie at the intersection of technology development by companies and policy formulation by governments. At the other extreme, cross-border flows of certain types of private or public data, such as well production for a global oil producer or anonymous aggregated statistics, may be better left unfettered.

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How B2B Software Vendors Can Help Their Customers Benchmark

Harvard Business Review

Microsoft, for example, has a program called MyAnalytics that informs customers of its Office productivity software about how much time they spend on various tasks, and the size and strength of their communications networks. 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

Gross Domestic Product (GDP), our core measure of prosperity, was developed during the industrial age. physical capital), rather than today’s growth drivers of developing and creating human, intellectual, and network capital.

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