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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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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. The first category should describe the amount spent on supporting current operations.

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Teaching an Algorithm to Understand Right and Wrong

Harvard Business Review

Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. For some tasks, algorithms will need to be coded differently according to what jurisdiction they operate in. For example, firms operating in the U.S. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age. Sponsored by SAS. This is not, of course, a completely new problem.

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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.