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Most Industries Are Nowhere Close to Realizing the Potential of Analytics

Harvard Business Review

Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. An examination of the telecom industry , for example, shows that the analytics leaders have posted three to five times higher returns on their big data investment than the typical telecom company. Insight Center. The Next Analytics Age. Sponsored by SAS.

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How Facebook Uses Empathy to Keep User Data Safe

Harvard Business Review

But effective security is driven as much by people as it is by technology. The ways those people interact with technology and each other can completely change the effectiveness of your security strategy. Collaborative, cross-functional teams. A focus on outcomes rather than inputs.

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Venture Capitalists Get Paid Well to Lose Money

Harvard Business Review

There are, of course, individual firms that succeed in generating venture rates of return. But they are too small in size and too few in number to make up for the vast majority of funds that fail to generate attractive returns (or any returns) for investors. The future has really never looked better!

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How the Next Generation Is Approaching Society’s Biggest Problems

Harvard Business Review

Second, changes in technology have dramatically lowered the cost of experimentation and create unprecedented transparency into problems, solutions, and results. The same is true of everyone on his team. Second, technology made Khan Academy possible. If not, the investors receive a lower return and risk losing their capital.

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The Comprehensive Case for Investing More VC Money in Women-Led Startups

Harvard Business Review

But what much of the VC world might not realize, is that female-led firms may have a higher rate of return on average than male-led firms. Indeed, fewer than 5% of all VC-funded firms have women on their executive teams, and only 2.7% While this is true of start-up’s in general, recent data show that in the U.S.,

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The Disruption of Venture Capital

Harvard Business Review

Because of the limited investment that accelerators offer companies (usually less than $40,000), they can evaluate business plans and founding teams more quickly than traditional venture investors with arguably less risk. Accelerators with a handful of full-time employees and no limited partners will accept dozens of companies each year.