Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

To see how this can be valuable, consider how Uber rolled out its Express Pool service in 2018. In 2018, in the run-up to the launch of Express Pool, Uber tasked one of us (Duncan, who manages a group of economists and data scientists within the company) with assessing how likely it was to succeed.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Dozens of companies, ranging from telcos ( Sprint , AT&T ), to tech giants (SAP, IBM), to automakers and insurance companies (MINI, State Farm ) have launched similar experiments. As of June 2018, corporate occupiers make up roughly one-quarter of WeWork’s members and revenues.

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Harvard Business

JULY 18, 2017

Many large companies yearn to rekindle the innovative magic of entrepreneurship, but very few actually succeed. The reasons have been well documented and include: Large, established companies answer to investors who value predictable, consistent financial results, and so are intolerant of the risks inherent in bold innovation.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 30, 2018

Many are expecting that when these regulations go into effect in May 2018, they will address many consumers’ concerns. The digital industry is riding an important—and turbulent—wave of change right now. Facebook itself has hinted that it might extend some of the EU-driven protections worldwide; others may follow its lead.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Cryptocurrency, electric and self-driving cars, 5G bandwidth, and the Internet of Things represent some of the technologies with the greatest market potential for the upcoming decade, and so making predictions on how they will develop is a key task of any management consulting firm. GDPR and the problematic Article 17.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

The year 2018 is barely underway and, already, digital trust initiatives have captured headlines. Fanatic Studio/Getty Images. Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg has said his platform will de-prioritize third-party publisher content to keep users focused on more “meaningful” posts from family and friends.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 4, 2020

Because these payments have kept up with the fast-paced, digital nature of society, mobile P2P payment solutions have skyrocketed in popularity and, by the end of 2018, were used by over 82.5 Backed by the support of these financial institutions, Cashedge developed a safe way for their customers to transfer money.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

On the one hand, you have Prime Minister Modi declaring at the 2018 World Economic Forum that India’s economy, already the fifth largest in the world, will double to $5 trillion by 2025. India has been increasing its spending on infrastructure such as airports, new cities, hotels, ports, roads, bridges, hospitals, and power plants.

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Harvard Business

JULY 5, 2016

The UK tech sector has been among the groups most vigorously opposed to exiting. A survey of members of Tech London Advocates, an industry group, revealed that 87% opposed Brexit. These are real concerns for the UK economy overall as the tech sector accounts for around 10% of British GDP. The prognosis is not good.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 20, 2016

This week, Canada announced it would tax carbon nationally by 2018. In 2016, two dwarf the rest: the election of Donald Trump and significant action on climate change. So let’s focus on these two first, and then run quickly through seven other interesting stories. The early signs from the Trump team are not promising, in my view.

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