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What Tomorrow's Leaders Are Learning in Africa Right Now

Harvard Business Review

They reported to host businesses in Lagos, Accra, or Nairobi to work as product managers, product marketing managers, financial analysts, human resource analysts, and strategic business analysts for eight weeks before returning to end-of-program sessions beginning August 4 in Lagos.

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Your C-Suite Needs a Chief Data Officer

Harvard Business Review

Big names like Ford and Sears are setting up data labs in the Bay Area and we have just witnessed the launch of Data Collective , a data-only venture fund set up by some of Silicon Valley's leading lights. Making the most of a company's data requires oversight and evangelism at the highest levels of management.

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Getting Smarter about Google's "Brain Drain"

Harvard Business Review

Just yesterday, on the front page of the New York Times , came a report about how "low-level engineers, product managers and prominent managers" from the executive ranks are leaving the company for high-profile companies such as Facebook as well as venture-funded startups of the sort that dot the technology landscape.