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Guidance is Good, Overpriced Shares a Disaster

Harvard Business Review

BL: A misconception: Dealing with funds providers is part and parcel of running the company. In the final analysis, managers can't shun corporate owners. JF: But shouldn't executives be running their companies, not dealing with investors all the time? You should not spend excessive time on investors but they need attention and guidance.

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How the Internet Saved Handmade Goods

Harvard Business Review

That vestiges of old technologies linger on, capable of being resurrected into viable businesses again, doesn’t seem strange to us. Indeed, it’s part and parcel of the digital disruption remaking every aspect of the global economy. Disruptive innovation Information & technology Innovation'

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Make the Case for Better Quality Data

Harvard Business Review

Working to find and fix errors is part and parcel of most operational processes, and once they turn a harsh eye on non-value-added work, most leaders can root it out. You spend a lot of time and effort, but you are no better off than you would be if you'd billed the customer correctly the first time. These costs are estimable.

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Workforce Analytics Isn't as Scary as It Sounds

Harvard Business Review

ready to weigh and measure any parcel of human nature, and tell you what it comes to." To some, those of us who use analytics are no different than the strict headmasters and factory owners that populate the novels of Charles Dickens. Take Thomas Gradgrind in Hard Times. He's "[a] man of facts and calculations. A man who is.

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Visualizing the World of Tweets

Harvard Business Review

AWOT was also able to track tweets from Chinese users overcoming cyber-blocks, remote beacons in an otherwise notably blank parcel of Asia. Tweets were spotted in the Sahara Desert, high in the Arctic circle, and even in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

” According to Der Standard , an Austrian newspaper , mailing a parcel from Munich to Salzburg (distance: 145km; 90 miles) costs many times more than mailing it from Munich to Berlin (distance: 585km; 364 miles).

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