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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. In a market like social media, a firm’s success can depend on the winner-take-all profits that come from market leadership.).

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Why Leaders Are Still So Hesitant to Invest in New Business Models

Harvard Business Review

As technology continues to change and challenge even the most successful incumbent organizations in every industry, the cost of inertia is growing. Outdated beliefs about the world can linger for decades in a leadership team. You can take our online leadership investment style assessment). How much is changing?

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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.