Harvard Business

OCTOBER 18, 2016

How does your organization manage the money it spends on digital? In essence, digital investments should be planned and managed according to their current and future contribution to business performance. Just think about it: Not all digital investments make a similar contribution to achieving business results.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

Both then and in 1686, when Lloyd’s was born in a London coffee house, the global insurance industry was a business of utmost good faith , as it remains today. Intermediaries or “trust brokers” do not have to be written out of the equation — or disintermediated — as many blockchain enthusiasts argue.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 2, 2017

To understand the transformation that’s being brought about by blockchain technology, it’s useful to start with its largest implementation to date: bitcoin. Business in the Era of Blockchain. How technology is transforming transactions. Transactions occur between blockchain addresses.

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Harvard Business

MAY 17, 2017

Much has been made of the potential for blockchain technologies to open up new vistas for business and society. We argue that, like previous revolutionary ideas, blockchain has the potential to help developing nations leapfrog more-developed economies. Transactions occur between blockchain addresses. Distributed Database.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 15, 2017

Look at the modus operandi of today’s internet giants — such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Uber, or Airbnb — and you’ll notice they have one thing in common: They rely on the contributions of users as a means to generate value within their own platforms. Transactions occur between blockchain addresses.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Two decades later, an incredible tool is shoring up the foundations of social at the level of every transaction—blockchain. As a shared source of trust, it can extend the scope of digital transformation from a single company to the processes it shares with its suppliers, customers, and partners. So how does blockchain work?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 6, 2017

The blockchain is a revolution that builds on another technical revolution so old that only the more experienced among us remember it: the invention of the database. First created at IBM in 1970 , the importance of these relational databases to our everyday lives today cannot be overstated. Distributed Database. Computational Logic.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 16, 2017

Based on the research of the Fletcher School at Tufts University's Institute for Business in the Global Context and Planet eBiz. Based on the research of the Fletcher School at Tufts University's Institute for Business in the Global Context and Planet eBiz. Transactions occur between blockchain addresses.

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1 to 1

MARCH 14, 2022

Digital assets—tokens or any kind of data stored on a blockchain, such as images, audio, videos, and other files—are everywhere. We will address three key areas of concerns for digital assets in the financial services space and how CX leaders today can take a proactive approach. Users are ready and eager to adapt.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2017

But today, there’s nothing linear or traditional about the way businesses and their brands can explode in scale overnight—sometimes before the product even makes it into the hands of customers. At Microsoft, we continuously collaborate with businesses in an industry whose customers already self-identify as fans: sports.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 3, 2017

A vexing problem facing health care systems throughout the world is how to share more medical data with more stakeholders for more purposes, all while ensuring data integrity and protecting patient privacy. Blockchain offers a fourth model, which has the potential to enable secure lifetime medical record sharing across providers.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Where the custodian is the guardian of data, products and services are co-created with customers, rather than for customers, and business expansion is scaled through the products ecosystem. In his book “Who Owns the Future?” It was a compelling argument. But as Lanier rightfully questioned — who ultimately owns this data?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 9, 2017

In a recent paper , my colleagues at Hexayurt.Capital and I described a future in which blockchains, AI, and automated logistics explain how organizations and governments will soon be able to do all of these things and more. Business in the Era of Blockchain. How technology is transforming transactions.

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