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Harvard Business Review
MARCH 6, 2013
As a group, we saw the need to fully embrace technology in a way that would easily allow skilled volunteers to transfer their knowledge to our partners in Africa. PFS volunteers were able to provide Nyirefami with the technical expertise needed to install a quality control lab, and improve washing and pre-drying operations.
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 15, 2018
His stated goal is enabling small investors to get access to alternative high-quality investments, such as in private tech companies like Uber and AirBnB. They therefore seek investors who understand their initial losses and can facilitate secondary rounds of funding when their operations grow.
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Harvard Business Review
DECEMBER 6, 2016
Startups and major tech companies, notably Alphabet’s Google X division , are investing heavily in smart car technology, as are network ride-sharing companies such as Uber and Lyft. “Self-driving” or “smart” cars will simply become whatever we call the next generation of transportation technology.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 3, 2014
The most enduring impact of predictive analytics, I’ve observed, comes less from quantitatively improving the quality of prediction than from dramatically changing how organizations think about problems and opportunities. This ultimately required greater centralization and limiting local operator flexibility and discretion.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 8, 2011
Different operational skills. Even within a discipline there are differences in core operational strengths: often highly technical businesses will have more than one highly technical co-founder, but one of them will, for example, be a terrific architect while the other will be excellent at R&D or engineering. Similar work habits.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
The announcement late last week of Comcast’s $45 billion merger with Time Warner Cable set off a predictable frenzy of hyperventilating by much of the technology media and self-appointed consumer advocacy groups. Cable is just a technology, increasingly one of many, for transmitting information, whether video, voice or data.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 18, 2014
The American Company was to be a transatlantic enterprise that would produce large amounts of high-quality iron and, eventually, steel. He, his partners, and the American Company’s investors would control every stage of the operation, from mining on remote New Jersey mountainsides to selling metal bars in London.
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