The education of Airbnb's Brian Chesky - Fortune
“If you think about it, Airbnb is like a giant ship,” he says, holding up the napkin. “And as CEO I’m the captain of the ship. But I really have two jobs: The first job is, I have to worry about everything below the waterline; anything that can sink the ship.”
Why Wells Fargo is Terrified of Peer to Peer Lending
Five weeks ago the London-based newspaper Financial Times broke a story that Wells Fargo, one of the largest banks in the world, had issued a memo banning their staff from taking part in Lending Club and Prosper (full article).
Changing change management | McKinsey & Company
Change management as it is traditionally applied is outdated. We know, for example, that 70 percent of change programs fail to achieve their goals, largely due to employee resistance and lack of management support ...
Break Your Industry’s Bottlenecks - HBR
If you want to create a successful business, you have to do more than win your share of customers or control costs—you have to break the rules and overturn the received wisdom about how things work.
First Round Capital Finds That Female Founders Outperform Men - Fortune
First Round Capital took a look at its investments over the past 10 years, and found some encouraging conclusions ...
Light rail drives growth on Sunset Strip | afr.com
Light rail can make a difference if done right ...
The Amazing Ways Uber Is Using Big Data | datasciencecentral.com
Uber is a smartphone-app based taxi booking service which connects users who need to get somewhere with drivers willing to give them a ride. The service has been hugely controversial, due to regular taxi drivers claiming that it is destroying their livelihoods, and concerns over the lack of regulation of the company’s drivers, but the data gathered is pretty amazing ...
Greeks say they are the hardest-working European nation | Economist
ONCE in a while an opinion poll throws up an insight that is very revealing; yesterday it was the Pew Global survey of European countries ...
Money and Quotas Motivate the Sales Force Best — HBS Working Knowledge
Bonus programs are effective for motivating sales people, but also costly for companies to maintain. Doug Chung and Das Narayandas study several compensation schemes to see which work best.
Bringing the Internet out of the clouds: exploring the datacenters that power our world - Microsoft for Work
The cloud isn’t some nebulous construct that floats above us in the sky and magically stores and disseminates information. It’s actually a mind-boggling number of hard drives collected in datacenters located all over the world, connected by miles and miles of cable, so we can store enormous amounts of information and communicate almost instantaneously across the globe. You and everyone who uses the Internet to send an email, update a social media site, or host a sound file uses these datacenters. How much do you know about them?