Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Similarly, Microsoft paid $26 billion for loss-making LinkedIn in 2016, and Facebook paid $19 billion for WhatsApp in 2014 when it had no revenues or profits. Its value growth is powered by the network in place, not by increments of operating costs. For the next four years, it continued to report losses.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

That’s the research firm IDC’s estimate of the size of the big data market, worldwide, in 2016. trillion , IBM’s estimate of the yearly cost of poor quality data, in the US alone, in 2016. This figure should surprise no one with an interest in big data. But here’s another number: $3.1

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2018

The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies. We’re now entering a new era of innovation , one that the model doesn’t quite fit, and we will have to develop new approaches to build the future.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

When it comes to recommendations, is there room for improvement in the way Amazon and Netflix operate? The company collects as much information about a client as it can, in both structured and unstructured form. Forbes estimates that in 2015 the company brought in $250 million in revenue, and it predicts a 50% increase in 2016.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

The approach that we developed, called OB Nest, allows women experiencing low-risk pregnancies to reduce their number of in-person visits from the standard 12–14 to eight. In 2016 it was added as a standard care option at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Insight Center. The Leading Edge of Health Care.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

Economists developed the theory of network effects in the 1970s and burnished it in the 1990s, and business gurus, entrepreneurs, and the tech media enshrined it as one of the guiding lights of the new economy. in February 2016 — which perhaps says it all. Orkut officially closed in September 2014.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Even outside of the tech sector, the employment of more software developers is associated with a greater increase in industry concentration, and this relationship appears to be causal. Over 70% of the firms’ software budgets goes to code developed in-house or under custom contracts. Most industries in the U.S.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2017

The order is the latest development in a long-running debate over how companies use the H-1B program and how it affects American workers. There were approximately 180,000 new H-1B visas issued in 2016, according to State Department data. Who gets H-1Bs? There is other evidence of a strong demand for workers with tech skills.

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