Business

The TikTok Ban Should Worry Every Company

HBR Staff/Unsplash Earlier this summer, the U.S. government announced it was considering banning Chinese social media apps, including the popular app TikTok. In August, President Trump signed two executive orders to block transactions with ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company, and Tencent, which owns the popular messaging service and commercial platform WeChat, and another executive order requiring ByteDance to sell…

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Will Fall Guys Season 2 Be Enough?

Fall Guys Season 2 looks great, but the amount of brand-new content isn’t clear.Most of the shows appear to be re-skinned.Can Mediatonic keep up with the modern gaming landscape?Fall Guys has been the hit game of the summer. The colorful, noob-friendly battle-royale-lite has become the top PlayStation Plus game of all time and sold seven…

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Real Salt Lake Owner Gives Utah Sports Another Bad Look

Real Salt Lake owner Dell Loy Hansen is not happy about his team’s boycott of Wednesday’s game.Hansen said he felt disrespected by the move. He said it felt like “being stabbed.”Sadly, it’s just another racially disappointing chapter in the story of Utah sports.Dell Loy Hansen, owner of Utah’s MLS team Real Salt Lake, is hurting.Is…

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Institutional Investors Must Help Close the Race and Gender Gaps in Venture Capital

Research repeatedly shows that companies with diversity in senior leadership significantly outperform their all-white, all-male counterparts. Diverse leadership generates better financial performance, stronger innovation, and higher levels of startup success. Yet, despite compelling performance data, venture capital isn’t following the opportunity. This is true for a variety of well-documented reasons: gender and racial stereotyping, unconscious…

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Data Privacy Rules Are Changing. How Can Marketers Keep Up?

Earlier this year, the state of California announced that there would be no pandemic-related delay in enforcing the CCPA data privacy act. Many businesses — especially those who had a limited digital presence before the pandemic — have struggled to adapt to these stringent new regulations while transforming their businesses to work in the new…

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An Agile Approach to Budgeting for Uncertain Times

The uncertainties due to the pandemic are making the annual budgeting and planning process especially challenging.  Instead of the conventional predict, command, and control approach, companies should focus on learning, adapting, and growing — not on trying to predict the unpredictable. They should shift the focus from financial precision to strategic success. And they should plan faster…

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