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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business

If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. Stop avoiding finance because you’re afraid of numbers. Think of it this way, “Finance is the way businesses keep score. “Finance and accounting are very simple. .” “Finance and accounting are very simple. Overcome your fears.

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How Blockchain Applications Will Move Beyond Finance

Harvard Business

In the fall of 2014 my colleague Catherine Tucker and I conducted a large-scale experiment at MIT, in which 4,494 undergraduate students were offered access to bitcoin. To understand the transformation that’s being brought about by blockchain technology, it’s useful to start with its largest implementation to date: bitcoin.

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This Pharma Company Stays Innovative by Doing Two Things

Harvard Business

When one of us (Vivek) and his team launched Roivant Sciences in 2014 and began developing treatments for Alzheimer’s disease — they were determined to learn from the pharma industry’s innovation issues and build a more sustainable innovation engine. .”

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The Hidden Costs of Initial Coin Offerings

Harvard Business

More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture. In fact, ICOs have upended the conventional pattern of staged experimentation and fundraising.

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Looking for a Good Education at a Low Price, Perhaps Free? Head to Europe

MishTalk

On June 7, 2014 I wrote Looking to Drastically Reduce College Costs? In other words: Finland will finance your education, but not your afternoon coffee break. It also offers some of the world''s most cost-efficient college degrees. Study Abroad! Yesterday, a writer for the Washington Post expressed the same opinion.

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The U.S. Economy Is Suffering from Low Demand. Higher Wages Would Help

Harvard Business

Looking closer at the period following the financial crisis, 2010 to 2014, we find that weak demand played a key role in the recent productivity growth decline to historic lows. percentage points to productivity growth in the period 2010 to 2014. in 2010 to 2014, and is forecast to slightly increase to 2.8% in 2014 to 2020.

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How India Is Moving Toward a Digital-First Economy

Harvard Business

Meanwhile, according to the Ministry of Finance , the Indian economy is operating with $45 billion less cash than it did prior to demonization. When Prime Minister Modi assumed power in 2014, he put digital transformation at the center of his plans. Using Technology to Go From Identity to Financial Inclusion.