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Coronavirus Crisis: Reasons for Hope During These Dark Times

The Practical Leader

Stock markets should bounce back more quickly than the six years it took the Dow Jones Average from 2007 to 2013 to recover. They’ve set up a Covid-19 platform to share information with and among research institutes to develop better testing kits, drugs, and a vaccine.

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Data Can Do for Change Management What It Did for Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Retailers combine data on demographics and weather to predict sales and develop merchandising plans. Housing market price changes can be more accurately predicted from analysis of Google searches than by a team of expert real estate forecasters. The issue is that they operate as artisans, not scientists.

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Will You Be Writing Off Your Investment in Egypt?

Harvard Business Review

For decades multinational corporations have poured hundreds of billions of dollars of foreign investments into emerging markets , sometimes preferring the investment climate of "stable" authoritarian regimes over "messy" democracies. The highest estimate that we could find from recent, peer-reviewed studies was a 1.08

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Speed Up Your Product Development Without Losing Control

Harvard Business Review

There are real benefits to this real-time business capability: getting to market faster, capturing value quicker, more immediate responsiveness to customer needs. It’s cheaper because of automation and because small development teams need less coordination and oversight. Google’s operation stands out for its scale.