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What Executives Should Know About Digital Currencies

CEO Insider

It’s 2022, and both blockchain technology and the digital assets that it enables are seemingly everywhere in the corporate world — a stark departure from crypto’s grassroots origins. The post What Executives Should Know About Digital Currencies appeared first on CEOWORLD magazine.

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How Corporates Can Best Engage With Startups

The Horizons Tracker

Working with startups is something many organizations strive to do in order to tap into the innovation and ingenuity such partnerships can bring. Research from INSEAD suggests that the most common way of currently working with a startup is via a corporate venture fund. Successful partnerships. Successful partnerships.

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Four Innovation Trends to Watch in 2013

Harvard Business Review

Digital media continue to be springboards for global innovation and enterprise. So here are four innovation ideas — themes, really — sure to gain significantly greater mind- and market-share over the coming year. innovative alternatives. Will lower interest rates make venture capital a more appealing option?

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The Innovation Mismatch: "Smart Capital" and Education Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Editor's note: This post is part of a three-week series examining educational innovation and technology, published in partnership with the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. One of the most poignant summaries of the market for innovative technology solutions in education is that it is forever in its infancy.

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How Watson Changed IBM

Harvard Business Review

They knew the answer was not by relying on traditional internal processes and practices for R&D and innovation. IBM, a company with a long and successful tradition of internally-focused R&D activities, is adapting to this new world of creating platforms and enabling open innovation.

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Research: How Cloud Computing Changed Venture Capital

Harvard Business Review

How has technology changed which deals venture capitalists (VCs) fund and how they fund them? Venture capitalists essentially invest in startup ‘experiments’, and subsequently provide more funding to the experiments that work, so that they can run more experiments. Atomic Imagery/Getty Images.

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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. It's rare to find a company using complementary technology across the entire data value chain.