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A Study of 16 Countries Shows That the Most Productive Firms (and Their Employees) Are Pulling Away from Everyone Else

Harvard Business

Other research has documented that the pay gap between firms is contributing to increased income inequality, but our work makes two additional contributions. And second, we are able to link it to firms’ productivity and several measures of labor market policies. One of them has clearly been information technology.

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Research: Cloud Computing Is Helping Smaller, Newer Firms Compete

Harvard Business

has slowed , and that in most industries the biggest firms have higher market share than they did a decade ago. Despite those trends, our research suggests that technology can in fact provide an advantage to small and new firms. dynamism, technology has been known to disrupt incumbents when they least expect it. businesses.

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The Real Reason Superstar Firms Are Pulling Ahead

Harvard Business

One answer to that first question shows up in study after study: superstar firms are succeeding in large part due to information technology. Researchers at the OECD have documented the rise of superstar firms and their relationship to wage inequality, and found that use of IT is one of the primary drivers.

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3 Health Care Trends That Don’t Hinge on the ACA

Harvard Business

The pipeline for new drugs is bursting, and new devices and tools in the rapidly emerging digital health space will come to market more quickly. Investors are already keenly focused on this area, with many startups competing for a slice of the market. A third growth area is in EHRs and digital health applications.

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Why Law Firms Need IT Policies

Kraft Kennedy

The answers to these and hundreds of other questions should be documented and considered integra l to the operations of all organizations, especially in industries where work product and client data are highly sensitive, and highly valuable. Is it acceptable to use your family computer to access your firm’s work product?

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The Secret History of Agile Innovation

Harvard Business

The book gave 100 examples of companies — including ABB, Federal Express, Boeing, Bose, and Harley-Davidson — that were creating new ways of adapting to more turbulent markets. The signatories posted their document online and invited others to add their names as supporters.

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Could Open-Source Code Make Our Y2K Fears Finally Come True?

Harvard Business

Another organization, libraries.io , is doing a heroic job of indexing projects, including much-needed documentation and a map of relationships between projects. The time has come again for markets (and perhaps regulators) to demand similar audits as a first step toward working out the magnitude of the problem.