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The Mainstreaming of Augmented Reality: A Brief History

Harvard Business

Despite the fact that Niantic, the American software development company that developed Pokémon Go, has failed to maintain high levels of engagement on the game (its current user base is now 30 million users), the phenomenon demonstrated AR’s potential to be adopted by mainstream culture.

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Top 10 Consulting Firms in the Middle East

Management Consulted

However, due to its rich history in the region, the firm knows the market deeper, better, and has the best government and private sector relationships. Dubai is one of the firm’s newest offices, and for good reason – the city is a hot spot for tourism, real estate investment, trade, transportation, and financial services.

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What is Consulting?

Tom Spencer

Consultants can perform a wide range of tasks including framing a business problem, synthesizing large amounts of data, undertaking research, interviewing employees, developing recommendations, and presenting findings to senior management.

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What to Know About Doing Business in Iran

Harvard Business

But peruse some of the recent headlines about Iran , and you might wonder whether the market’s potential was overstated. However, despite a weakened economy, political tensions, market uncertainty, and the lingering effects of sanctions, Iran remains an important opportunity for multinationals in emerging markets.

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How Companies, Governments, and Nonprofits Can Create Social Change Together

Harvard Business

Capital markets, as a whole, are also moving in this direction. In turn, this will foster better social outcomes and create new markets and consumer segments. In researching and testing these commonalities, we developed a new management framework for effective cross-sector partnerships, and a clear method for measuring success.

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LA Commission Studies Pension Crisis, Recommends New Commission; Bankruptcy Inevitable

MishTalk

Please consider Report Finds Los Angeles at Risk of Decline A scathing verdict on Los Angeles’s civic health that was delivered in a one-two punch — the second on Wednesday — by a committee of lawyers, developers, labor leaders and former elected officials who make up something of the Old Guard here.

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Start of a Global Currency Crisis?

MishTalk

In Emerging Market Contagion Spreads , I presented a viewpoint that emerging market currencies have been under pressure because of falling commodity prices. To be fair, quite a few emerging market currencies as well as the currencies of developed countries that are large commodity exporters have been under pressure for some time.