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Guidance is Good, Overpriced Shares a Disaster

Harvard Business Review

If indeed lots of managers avoid long-term investments to meet the consensus, how to explain the constantly growing investment of corporate America in R&D , information technology, brands and business processes, and the constantly growing number of patents granted each year to US corporations?

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Why Polling Is Always Political

Harvard Business Review

By the same token, anyone following the intense — and intensifying — arguments around oversampling would likely come to the not unreasonable conclusion that there's zero consensus around "best practice" and quite a bit of legitimate disagreement around how much to weight the past.

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Is Europe’s Economy Really Sick?

Harvard Business Review

You cannot pick up a business newspaper magazine these days without reading some article about Europe’s economic crisis; there seems to be an almost universal consensus that Europe is sick, that its institutional frameworks and governments are unfriendly to business, and that its prospects for getting better are dim.

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Why Your Analytics are Failing You

Harvard Business Review

But the rough consensus was that the most productive conversations centered on how analytics changed behaviors rather than solved problems. Decision making Information & technology Organizational culture' But how those questions, answers and analytics align, or conflict, with individual and institutional behaviors matters more.

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How Physicians Can Keep Up with the Knowledge Explosion in Medicine

Harvard Business Review

One service, called UpToDate , employs 6,300 physician authors, editors, and peer reviewers to manually review the most recent medical information to produce synopses for practicing doctors. Another strategy is to translate consensus clinical guidelines to standardized practice protocols with clinical decision support algorithms (e.g.

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Solving the Looming Talent Shortage in the Energy Industry

Harvard Business Review

By 2030, the BPC predicts , utilities in the United States will need to hire 150,000 additional workers in information-technology intensive roles. The need for digitally savvy technical hires is especially pronounced.

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There's No Panacea for the Big Data Talent Gap

Harvard Business Review

When asked how challenging it is to source analytical skills, there was unanimous consensus that finding this talent represents a challenge. While this new breed is a critical ingredient in the wave of Big Data initiatives, finding them is incredibly challenging. And our survey indicates there will be plenty of competition for their talents.

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