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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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On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

Harvard Business Review

Hitler's human extermination empire was quite new in its scope, organization, and technology. As long as the new ideas cohere with ethical standards, and generally accepted accounting principles ( GAAP ), they can yield immense benefits. Tags: Creativity Ethics Innovation GAAP. And it quite effectively served its murderous goal.

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Teaching an Algorithm to Understand Right and Wrong

Harvard Business Review

Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. So it is possible that a powerful machine learning system could provide us with new insights. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age. Sponsored by SAS. In artificial intelligence, these influences are called a “machine learning corpus.”

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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.