Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Your driver’s license is the default proof of identity for everything from flying domestically to buying a new house. At the same time, we can anticipate friction as new forms of identity verification are integrated into old systems (technological, business, and social systems) with the potential for further erosions of privacy.

Crisis 9

Crisis Insurance Technology Credit Scoring 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2018

But as global technology brands penetrate African economies, it is becoming evident that most local startups are experiencing new levels of competition, which could potentially disrupt their operations. Across African markets, information and communication technology (ICT) is facilitating the process of socioeconomic developments.

Globalization 8

Globalization Banking Entrepreneur Technology 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 4, 2017

Tim Cook recently confirmed that Apple is working on ‘autonomous systems.’ The second play is to try to use its technological aptitude to create a vehicle that solves a particular problem. A teenager old enough to drive is twice as likely to have a smartphone as they are a driver’s license. Or a kitchen?

Transportation 9

Transportation Sports Pharmaceuticals Health Care 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Many of the revolutionary technologies that make the iPhone and other products and services "smart" were funded by the U.S. It also received its early stage finance from the U.S. This also stands in stark contrast to the steps that Apple, Google, and other technology companies take to avoid paying taxes. Over the years.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Biotechnology Fashion Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 2, 2015

Nearly two years ago, I wrote that the phenomenal economic and social potential of commercial drones, more properly called unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), was being stymied by a slow-moving Federal Aviation Administration. And that’s for a technology that is, and will remain, largely illegal. In Washington, business as usual.

Transportation 8

Transportation Proposal Technology Press Release 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

Outside the Valley, the startup eco-systems are mostly immature, and the probability gets even lower. Andy’s research was financed by DARPA at the university. The technology allows automated cleaning up of large code-bases, and was licensed back to the company by Stanford. Fewer than 1% who try actually succeed.

Productivity 8

Productivity Products Customer Intimacy Benchmarking 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

The lower reimbursement and need to provide 24/7 coverage that makes a primary-care-based system so appealing to policy makers and others has long been shown to be a source of burnout and challenges in getting medical students to choose careers in primary care. The last thing that this group of providers desires is more responsibility.

Health Care 8

Health Care How To Insurance Incentives 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Drawing on a powerful tool from the finance world, they conceived of those collections operating as portfolios — each with a specific business objective and time horizon. That could involve targeting new geographies, developing new products, taking advantage of new technologies, or devising new business models.

Strategy 8

Strategy Long-term Health Care Insurance 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2017

Ninety percent of businesses responding to the International Chamber of Commerce’s 2016 Global Survey on Trade Finance pointed to anti-money laundering as the most significant impediment to trade. How Blockchain Works Here are five basic principles underlying the technology. How technology is transforming transactions.

Document 10

Document Decentralization Banking Insurance 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Over the months that followed, more than one billion people participated in a “reboot” of the country’s financial and monetary system. Consider, for example, a government payment system created in 2016 that was processing 100,000 transactions per month in October of that year, prior to the sudden demonetization.

Banking 15

Banking Long-term Short-term System 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

It would license the technology by paying a royalty for every product sold. Early last year, we were able to close a Series A round of financing from Khosla Impact Fund and Capricorn Investment Group, giving us a launchpad by which to try this new structure.

NGO 8

NGO Venture Capitalist Entrepreneur Short-term 8

Strategy Driven

MARCH 28, 2016

It took years for Apple to gain traction despite offering what critics consider to be a superior operating system. For instance, selling platform licenses to entire companies, like the enterprise HR software Workday, takes much more time than it does to sell a new application for a smart phone. Then, there is 50 Shades of Grey.

Productivity 50

Productivity Products Marketing Strategy Budgeting 50