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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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How Watson Changed IBM

Harvard Business Review

Advances in technology — especially digital technology and the increasing role of software in products and services — are demanding that large, successful organizations increase their pace of innovation and make greater use of resources outside their boundaries. Innovation Strategy Technology'

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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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Why Some of the Most Groundbreaking Technologies Are a Bad Fit for the Silicon Valley Funding Model

Harvard Business Review

Over the past few decades, Silicon Valley has been such a powerful engine for entrepreneurship in technology that, all too often, it is considered to be some kind of panacea. The Silicon Valley model, for all of its charms, was developed at a specific time, for a specific industry, which was developing a specific set of technologies.

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Make Your Competition Work for You

Harvard Business Review

Both now lead with the same processors, but Dell offers custom system configuration at ship, while HP capitalizes on more impressive display and battery technology. For example, IBM , Intel , and other large companies routinely allocate and manage venture funds to invest in startups with new technology that may compete with their own.

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Three Headwinds for Facebook's IPO

Harvard Business Review

Over the past couple of years, I've become close with a handful of web product managers. Less than three years ago, Facebook was valued at just 10B by Yuri Milner's Digital Sky Technologies. Each of them confirms that what Facebook provides is incredibly valuable in building websites.

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Why John Deere Measures Employee Morale Every Two Weeks

Harvard Business Review

More recently, online sites such as Glassdoor and Vault let HR managers view anonymized praises and complaints about their company from employees and former employees – comments the whole world can see. The technologies and processes that are transforming companies. Why do they do this? How do these things connect?

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