Harvard Business Review

Publicado pela Harvard Business Review, em junho de 2014

In spite of historically low interest rates, companies are sitting on cash rather than investing in innovations to foster growth. Are our current investment tools blind to new opportunities to create jobs and markets in a recovering economy? In this recent Harvard Business Review article, Harvard Business School faculty Clayton M. Christensen and Derek van Bever analyze new ways to measure potential and define success.

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Nearly 10 years ago, Yahoo bought a $1 billion stake in Alibaba. Last month, the Chinese company’s IPO gave Yahoo an $8 billion return on investment. In this recent NPR Weekend Edition Saturday story, Professor F. Warren McFarlan of Harvard Business School takes a closer look at the now-legendary investment and what other companies can learn from it.

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Big data is being hailed as the future of business, and many companies are scrambling to add analytics to their toolkit. But is that enough? According to this recent Harvard Business Review article, there’s another key step to consider. Today’s organizations must manage all of their strategic knowledge assets. Read on to find out why it’s so important.

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