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How Twitter Hype Helps Startups

The Horizons Tracker

Twitter plays an increasingly potent role in spreading the word about all manner of things, from politics to Covid (miss)information. “Twitter sentiment is a comparatively novel signal in venture capital financing, and it is at the same time only a weak signal in comparison to patents,” the authors say.

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Culture, Not Leverage, Made Wall Street Riskier

Harvard Business Review

Organizational characteristics — cultures, structures, politics, economic resources, their presence or absence, their allocation — put pressure on individuals to behave in deviant ways to achieve organizational goals. Before the IPO in 1999, partners of Goldman Sachs owned equity in a private partnership. The loss of Challenger on Jan.

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60 Countries’ Digital Competitiveness, Indexed

Harvard Business Review

We introduced the Digital Evolution Index in HBR in 2015 to trace the emergence of a “digital planet,” how physical interactions — in communications, social and political exchange, commerce, media and entertainment — are being displaced by digitally mediated ones. Innovation and change.

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How Chinese Companies Can Develop Global Brands

Harvard Business Review

Since positioning is vital in new markets, today’s boards must include Chief Marketing Officers, not just directors with operations or finance backgrounds. Government measures intended to cool an overheating economy, such as tightening loans and freezing IPOs, are holding back companies that need capital to grow. An HBR Insight Center.

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Europe’s Other Crisis: A Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

and China take the lead in tech innovation. And a recently released report suggests that Europe’s digital divide problem extends way beyond the Atlantic; Europe is a distant third behind North America and Asia for $100 million plus financing for VC backed companies. Investing in innovation capacity. billion in 2014.

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