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How will AI transform strategic planning?

Tom Spencer

At the CES 2018 held in Las Vegas, Steve Koenig , Senior Director of Market Research at Consumer Technology Association, presented on tech trends to watch. Outlining the big picture, he described 2018 as the beginning of the “ data era of consumer tech”, with the heralds of that coming age being 5G, AI, and AR.

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Why Companies Are Creating Their Own Coworking Spaces

Harvard Business

As of June 2018, corporate occupiers make up roughly one-quarter of WeWork’s members and revenues. We’ve separately toured and interviewed principals in more than a dozen corporate coworking spaces in the U.S., It’s also creating stand-alone locations for individual clients such as IBM, UBS , and Facebook.

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Why There’s No Such Thing as a Corporate Entrepreneur

Harvard Business

I have now interviewed hundreds of actual entrepreneurs — including founders of Amazon, Apple, Biogen, Boston Scientific, iRobot, Netflix, PayPal, and YouTube — as well as new venture and innovation leaders in large companies like Disney, Target, Toyota, and Coca-Cola. Fly-your-own-plane-to-your-own-private-island-level wealth.

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A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Harvard Business

On June 25, 2018, Facebook lost market capitalization of more than $100 billion in just two hours of trading after it announced its quarterly performance, despite exceeding analysts’ earnings forecasts. The level and trend of a company’s top-line metric is an advance indicator of the success of its business model.

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Rethinking How Medicaid Patients Receive Care

Harvard Business

Chief among them were behavioral-interview methods to uncover candidates’ intrinsic motivations and biases. We also invested significant leadership time in performing final interviews for all roles — from medical assistants to physician leaders — to ensure that each team member would strengthen the team’s dedication.

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Carlos Ghosn, Nissan, and the Need for Stronger Corporate Governance in Japan

Harvard Business

Nor does the board issue a compensation report, which explains the rationale and metrics for setting executive compensation. By contrast, the laws of most advanced industrial countries require the board to be composed of a majority of independent directors, who are interviewed and recommended by its nominating committee.

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3 Ways M&A Is Different When You’re Acquiring a Digital Company

Harvard Business

When we recently interviewed top M&A executives in Europe about their experience, fully three-quarters of them said that digital disruption has had a relatively large impact or even requires a complete overhaul of their M&A strategy. Publicis now gets 50% of its revenue from digital—that’s ahead of its 2018 target.

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