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What Amazon’s HQ2 Wish List Signals About the Future of Cities

Harvard Business

The city that lands this historic deal will see its economic and physical landscape transformed, albeit for a hefty price tag in the form of tax breaks. Access to domestic and global markets through modern infrastructure. Amazon dwells extensively on the importance of proximity and connectivity to population centers.

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How Experts Can Help a General Audience Understand Their Ideas

Harvard Business

Consider how Jeff Hudson, the CEO of Venafi, described internet security when addressing executives in Global 5000 businesses: He likened cryptographic keys and digital certificates — which identify webservers, software, devices, apps, and critical infrastructure — to the tags attached to every cell in the human body.

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What Mark Zuckerberg Understands About Corporate Purpose

Harvard Business

Last week Mark Zuckerberg published a strong defense of both globalization and Facebook’s business model. In a nearly 6,000-word letter , he argued persuasively that Facebook thrives under a globalized socioeconomic system, where barriers to information, labor, capital, and products are minimal. Articulate the how.

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Why Are We Still Classifying Companies by Industry?

Harvard Business

First there were Standard Industry Classification codes, which were introduced in 1937, then the North American Industry Classification System, and now we have Standard and Poor’s Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS). They have expanded far beyond the “Information Technology” tag attached to them by GICS.

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A Tool to Map Your Next Digital Initiative

Harvard Business

devices, software, infrastructure) is available for use and other necessary enabling changes have been made. To address this problem, this retailer planned to tag products at the item level. Sustaining changes are permanent changes to working practices, processes, or relationships that will cause the benefits to be delivered.

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Building the New “Mega Segments”: Which Content Providers Will Play to Win? - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM COGNIZANT

Harvard Business

By Ashish Chawla, Global Head, Cognizant Contentworks; Shubham Choudhury, Senior Manager and Consulting Lead, Cognizant Contentworks. We believe that communication companies will become technology intermediaries, providing the segment-agnostic foundational layer that encompasses broadband infrastructure. Discoverability.

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How Blockchain Could Help Emerging Markets Leap Ahead

Harvard Business

Leapfrogging — using the lack of existing infrastructure as an opportunity to adopt the most advanced methods — has been a highly effective strategy for developing nations over the last few decades. But it’s not just physical infrastructure that can be leapfrogged.