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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies. As digital technology becomes more pervasive, more and more companies will present this sort of valuation challenge.

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What Markets Do and Don’t Get About Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Sustaining innovation inhabits the world of incremental change, deliberate strategy , and most financial and management theory. Desktop 3D printers are a classic new-market disruption: fundamental changes in technology allow much cheaper, more accessible, and worse performing products to become available to new customers.