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What is digital currency?

Tom Spencer

Since the advent of Bitcoin in 2008, digital currency has been a growing trend and a growing area of interest for consultants, businesses, fintech investors, central banks, and governments. This also includes Bitcoin (created in 2008) and Ethereum (created in 2015). Reading Time: 6 minutes. What is the value of digital currency?

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business

Robo-advisors, which were introduced in 2008 , are steadily eating up market share from their human counterparts much the way that Amazon and Netflix have taken share from Walmart and Regal Cinemas. 7 trillion by the year 2025 from about U.S.$300 7 trillion by the year 2025 from about U.S.$300 will grow to U.S. $5

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Clash of Generations - Boomers vs. Millennials: Attitude Change Will Disrupt Wall Street and Corporate America

MishTalk

It is estimated that by 2025 they will make up as much as 75 percent of the workforce. Major Attitude Shift I have been writing about the implications of changing attitudes since at least 2008. Flashback June 25, 2008: Peak Credit Secular Attitude Change Underway There is a secular attitude change happening right now.

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How disruptive is the 'Sharing Economy'?

freshminds

Airbnb Since its launch in San Francisco in 2008 between two friends renting their home out during a conference in the city, this online bed booking service offers over 250,000 rooms provided by private individuals in in over 30,000 cities in 192 countries. If Google can offer lower prices to customers, Uber may struggle to compete.

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Finally, Proof That Managing for the Long Term Pays Off

Harvard Business

It started with developing a proprietary Corporate Horizon Index. To construct our Corporate Horizon Index, we identified five financial indicators, selected because they matched up with five hypotheses we had developed about the ways in which long- and short-term companies might differ. rate for other companies.

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If the U.S. Gets into a Trade War with the EU, It Will Lose an Ally in Pressuring China

Harvard Business

have been quietly working to develop another agreement containing rules to restrain Chinese subsidies. Instead, particularly after the 2008 financial crisis, China has expanded central planning ; 100,000 SOEs have been the principal engine of that expansion. Moreover, MADE IN CHINA 2025 is only the first of three phases.